Bill Canady recommends running a 30-day break list to identify decisions interrupting your week, then permanently assign the most frequent one to someone else. Expect the question to resurface for three weeks, but redirect it to the new owner instead of answering it yourself.
Move number 2, run the 30-day break list and assign one item permanently to a named human being. The— you built this list in episode 1. If you didn't, build it now. If you were unreachable for 30 days, what breaks? Take the list and don't pick the biggest item. Pick the one that happens most often. Frequency is a thing eating your week, and that's where the 41 decisions live. Assign it permanently. Permanent means 3 things. It's written down, it's announced to the leadership team, and This is the part where everyone fails. You stop answering it when it comes to you anyway, and it will. Old habits die hard. It will come to you anyway for about 3 weeks. Somebody will walk in, ask you the question you just gave away, and you will know the answer, and it will take you 9 seconds to say it. Don't. Say this sentence. That's Dave's call now. Go ask Dave. You do yourself and your company a big favor. What do you do in the 3 weeks is the entire test.
