You didn’t hire the wrong people. If every decision still lands on your desk. This is for you.
You built this business so you could have a life. Right now the business is having your life.
It’s Friday. Six o’clock. You’re leaving the office. One of the team catches you by the door.
“Quick one. The new starter in ops isn’t working out. What do you want to do?” And there goes the weekend.
Not because your people are weak. You hired good people. But the safest move for them is to ask you.
If they make the call and it’s wrong, that’s on them. If they bring it to you and it’s wrong, that’s on you.
So they bring it to you. Every time.
You’ve tried. You’ve delegated the tasks. You’ve had the conversations.
The decisions still land back on your desk by Wednesday. You tell yourself it’s just this week. It’s been three years.
You didn’t hire the wrong people. You trained the right ones to bring every decision to you.
You can’t switch off. Can’t take a holiday without your phone. You can’t sit through dinner without your phone face-up on the table.
You already know why. You just don’t know how to stop it.
When did you last come back from a week off and the business had won without you?
What got you here will not get you there.
I made a video this week on why decisions keep bouncing back, the one rule that stops most of them, and the one page that handles the rest.
One page. Four columns. Every decision in your business belongs in one of them.
The video shows you how to fill it in.
I built this for Founder-CEO’s. Its the framework I used to scale two Uk companies to £30m. It’s called:
The Founder-CEO Decision Rights Framework™
Think about the last three decisions that landed on your desk this week that your team should have made themselves.
If you can name them in under ten seconds, you already know where the line is. The video shows you how to draw it.
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