Bill Canady argues that a CEO making 41 decisions in three days isn't a control freak. The real problem is the organization's structure that funnels every decision to the top. Redesigning the system, not the leader's habits, fixes the overload.
He gets to 41 and he stops and he says, and it's only Wednesday. 41 decisions in 3 days. Now, here's the part I need you to hear because everyone gets it backwards. That man is not a control freak. He's not insecure. He's not hoarding authority, and he's not bad at delegating. I know him well. The guy's actually pretty good at it, and he's genuine about it. I have watched him hand people real decision rights and mean it. He was carrying 41 decisions in 3 days because in that building, He was the only piece of architecture that worked. This is not a character problem. That's a blueprint problem. And you cannot fix a blueprint by trying harder. All right, let me start with the proof here.
