How Great Leaders Avoid Becoming Bottlenecks

As a CEO, you are invested in your company. Perhaps, you have built it from nothing, and you want to see it succeed more than anything. However, that passion has a side effect: attachment.

As your team grows, that attachment often manifests as a need to oversee every moving part. You aren't just the founder. You have also become the bottleneck.  

While "founder-led everything" works when you have five or fewer employees, it becomes a liability as you scale. Without realizing it, you may have accidentally engineered a dependent team — a group of great people who have lost the ability or the permission to think for themselves.

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