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In my early years of entrepreneurship, I believed that the more I tried to manage all aspects of my business, the more successful it would be. I thought that micromanaging was my way of protecting myself from failure. But I soon realized that while I was busy trying to control everything, I was losing the one thing that mattered most: freedom — the absence of work constraints and the ability to think tactically and creatively and have personal time.
The epiphany that struck me was that real freedom is not about releasing oneself; rather, it is about exercising leadership sensibly and
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