You can’t take a week off. Everything still runs through you.
When every decision lands on the owner’s desk, the business can only grow as fast as one person can think. Usually it isn’t that your people can’t decide. It’s that they’ve learned it isn’t safe or worth it to.
Book a free 20-minute Gap CallYou’ve probably said one of these.
- “My managers won’t make a call without me.”
- “I’m answering questions at 9 p.m.”
- “If I’m out, things stop.”
- “It’s faster if I just do it myself.”
People stop deciding when their decisions don’t stick.
An owner hands someone a decision, then steps in and changes it. Once or twice is enough. People learn their judgment doesn’t count, and they start bringing everything back to you.
From the top, it looks like your people won’t step up. From the team’s side, it looks like stepping up doesn’t work. That’s the gap.
Measure it, then move the decisions.
The Pulse shows whether your team believes decisions can get made without you. The Intensive then works out which decisions should move, to whom, and how you stay informed without stepping back in.
Let one decision stick.
This week, hand someone a real decision and let it stand, even if you’d have done it differently. Talk about it afterward, not in the moment.
Twenty minutes. Your business, your team, a straight answer.
Tell John what’s not working. He’ll tell you plainly whether there’s a gap worth working on.
Book a free 20-minute Gap Call