How a brilliant founder can become their company’s creative bottleneck

Lauren Templeton built a company around creativity. A London-based performing arts entrepreneur and coach, she’s grown her school, Select School of Performing Arts, from three ballet classes in one studio into a 50-location organization reaching more than 1,000 students a week. At first, that growth came from a single creative source: her. “When I founded Select, I was doing everything,” Templeton says. “Every creative decision, every concept, every direction, it came...