Sound familiar?
Every decision still lands on your desk
You hired good people. They wait for you anyway. By Thursday you are the slowest link in your own business, and everyone is politely pretending not to notice.
Teams do not wait for owners because they are weak; they wait because waiting has always been the safe move. If decisions have ever been reversed without warning, or criteria live only in your head, then asking first is simply rational. Delegation fails when it hands over tasks without handing over the authority and the information to decide. It works when each seat owns a number, the criteria are written down, and being wrong within the rules costs less than asking permission for everything.
First moves — before you spend a pound on coaching
- Give every seat in the business one number it owns on the Growth Ledger
- Write decision criteria for the three questions your team asks you most
- Track interruptions for one week — then move them wholesale into the Weekly Helm
If you do those and the wall moves, brilliant — you may not need us. If it moves and then moves back (this is common; structure decays without rhythm), that is the moment coaching earns its fee.
An owner who was here
Fernway Foods — Wholesale bakery, Halifax. One page of numbers ended the 5am cash panic: Profitable on paper, overdrawn monthly → 13 consecutive months cash-positive. Read what actually changed.
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