Help your managers take responsibility.
Define what managers own and which decisions need the founder.
ResourcesLeadership
- When your business can't run without you: founder dependency in growing businessesIf decisions, knowledge and follow-up still wait for you, growth is limited by your time. How to tell where your business depends on you and how to delegate safely.
- Why your managers won't decide without you, and what founders can changeYou've told your managers to take ownership, yet every decision still comes to you. How your everyday reactions teach managers to wait, and how to reverse it.
- Manager or senior employee? How to tell before you promote someoneYour best employee keeps rescuing the business. That doesn't show they can manage. How to tell the difference before you promote, and after.
- How to coach a newly promoted managerYou promoted your best performer and they're still doing their old job. How to coach a new manager on real work, starting with the role itself.
- What should a founder's dashboard show? The few numbers a growing business needsPlenty of reports and still no clear view of cash, margin or risk? The five questions a founder's dashboard should answer, and who should put it together.
How does leadership work in your business?
Founders can use the Quick Picture to reflect on this and the other five conditions. About three minutes, no sign-up.