Bill Canady says organizational stalls aren't about motivation. They come from decisions never made and structures that can't handle the work. CEOs feeling like a chief everything officer aren't micromanaging, they're missing delegation because no one else is equipped to take it on.
They are not the cycle. They are decisions somebody inside the building made or failed to make. A stall is almost never a story about a team that stopped caring. It's almost always a story about a structure that ran out of capacity to carry the work and the company as it had. So let me say the thing most CEOs in this seat need to hear and almost never do. If you feel like the chief everything officer, it isn't because you're a micromanager. I mean that literally. Most of the CEOs who feel that way are the opposite of micromanagers. They're the ones who hand out authority freely, who genuinely want other people to decide, who get irritated that everything keeps coming back to them anyway. They are carrying the load because there's nothing else, no one else in the building that built this to carry it.
