Bill Canady says leaders should make themselves unnecessary by building systems strong enough to run without them. A weekly scoreboard, monthly business review, and quarterly reset create the rhythm that lets this work. The payoff: you're more valuable because your organization doesn't depend on you showing up.
The— here's one sentence variation of this whole episode, and I'd write it on something you look at. Your job in phase 2 is to become the least necessary person in the building on purpose. That's right. Your job's to put yourself out of a job. That's how you know you're doing it right. Not the least valuable, not the least anything, the least necessary. There's a very large difference, and about a turn and a half of a multiple is sitting on it. So go make yourself unnecessary. Doesn't mean you're not valuable. Next week, the rhythm. You got the architecture. Now I'll give you the thing that makes it run without you standing over it. The weekly scoreboard, the monthly business review, the quarterly reset, what belongs in each one, the 2 rules that make a monthly review worth having, and the 10-second test for sorting any problem into the right meeting. The whole system costs about a half day of your week, which is less than what you're spending right now on interruptions. And I'll give you the 2 ways it dies.
