From Operator to Architect: How to Stop Producing and Start Leading – Episode 75 Financial advisors are often brilliant at helping their business owner clients build real enterprise value and create companies that can run well without them being involved in all the day-to-day activities. It’s strange, then, that so many advisors don’t take their own advice when it comes to their advisory practices. The fact is, a lot of you don’t truly own a business; you own a job. Instead of leading your practice and designing how the work gets done, you do all the work—acting like a producer whose presence is constantly needed instead of a CEO who can step away without the business suffering (even as you help clients avoid the same fate!).