Founders often become their company's bottleneck by insisting on making every decision and monitoring all execution. The fix is establishing clear organizational structure and delegation so the business doesn't depend entirely on the founder's daily involvement.
It comes in a lot of different forms, but the real indicator is that founder, that fearless leader, as I call them, becomes the bottleneck because everything needs to come through him. He is— every day is an urgency. Everything's a fire. Every decision that seems to be needed has to come through him and get his input. And then the execution is something that he has to monitor. And from my standpoint, what we're looking at there is the failure to recognize what structure is needed by the business so that proper delegation and responsibility assumption can occur.
