In the book Adult ADHD: How to Succeed as a Hunter in a Farmer’s World, Thom Hartmann suggests that business owners with ADHD should, from the very beginning, prioritize documenting and templatizing their business processes, with the eventual goal of ceding control by Franchising their business.
This is for a simple reason: Hunters are only good at doing new things.
Hunters and Farmers
In the book, he splits people largely into two categories: Hunters and Farmers. Hunters are people with ADHD, who can take on dangerous new tasks (like hunting a large animal). Farmers are the ones who can do the due-diligence needed to actually make use of that work (like skinning & cleaning the pelt) which is too boring for Hunters.
A Startup is a company seeking to build something new. But once it has, y’know, started - there’s a lot less to figure out. This is where operations must be turned over to a Farmer who can focus on execution of the successful Recipe. A Hunter, if left in charge, will keep trying to do new things and neglect the processes that already work.
And then?