Leaders who approve routine decisions too early become bottlenecks, shifting ownership back up the org chart. The shift happens gradually and goes unnoticed until it blocks everything. Empower teams to keep authority over everyday decisions.
Everything starts routing back to us. The simple decisions, the simple approvals, the problem solving that our team is more than capable of doing. When we start paying attention to that and we become the bottleneck where we're actually making decisions that we shouldn't be, decisions that previously we haven't, that people were willing to make it and now they're not. The problem is this happens gradually as well. And if we're not paying attention to it, that gradual shift all of a sudden seems to be this big issue because we haven't addressed it. See, the moment we step in way too early as leaders, ownership moves back up the organizational chart. And we often do it with the right intent of helping
