Who's got the monkey w/ Ashley Quinto Powell

<h2>What’s In This Episode:</h2> <p>Are you ready to go or are you kind of crawling into 2019 a little bit burnt out? If you’re the latter, Brad’s got a 5-day email course that he wants you to read, called <em>5 Days to Get Control of Your Business and Your Life</em>. In it, you’ll find a simple exercise to cut down your work hours down immediately, a magic phrase that improves the output of your team and empowers them to solve their own problems, a proven practice to enable you to set boundaries, and a way to start fitting in things that you enjoy.</p> <p>If this is something you’re interested in, <a href= "http://anchoradvisors.com/control">you’ll find it here</a>. Sign up and let Brad know what you think!</p> <h3>"Start talking to folks before you throw something into the world by yourself and don't get the tone of the city or the people in it." - Jill</h3> <p>Ashley Quinto Powell of The Bossy calls in and she has a great opportunity to launch a Chicago chapter after founding her business in Madison, Wisconsin. She wants to know the best way to do a launch in the Second City (though she would prefer not to do a fun run). Jill and Brad help her to get practical and less vague.</p> <h3>"The first thing you want to do is to stop solving people's problems." - Brad</h3> <p>Brad's talking about the most popular Harvard Business Review article of all time, published in 1973: "Who's Got The Monkey?" The monkey is a problem that the employee doesn't know how to solve, so they leave it with the business owners. So, ideally, you want to make sure that your office is a no-monkey zone.</p> <p>So when someone walks in with a problem, the first thing to do is to be really stupid, Brad says. It trains people to come to you with solutions.</p> <p><strong>How do you deal with the monkey?</strong></p>