If you’re managing by faith instead of a system, you’re not building a business – you’re just hiring assistants.

It’s the end of the day (whenever that happens for you). You’re tired, your own to-do list is only half-finished, and something nags at the back of your mind: you don’t really know what your team got done today. You assume they’ve been working hard. You’re not worried about trust in the moral sense, you trust their intentions. But if you’re honest, you don’t have any real system to know what progress was made or where things stand.

In early-stage startups, this isn’t