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- Decisions over $10K regularly happen without me.*
- Decisions that have already been made often come back to me for a final check.*
- Decision rights across our leadership team are written down, known, and used.*
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- Our sales are growing as fast as they did three years ago.*
- Profitability holds steady even when I am focused outside day-to-day operations.*
- A buyer or investor would value our company lower because so much runs through me.*
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- At least three people on my leadership team can make high-impact decisions without me.*
- We rely on outside hires because we rarely develop leaders from within.*
- Our leaders consistently coach and develop other leaders without relying on me.*
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- Most of our critical knowledge (key relationships, pricing logic, how things really get done) lives in my head.*
- When a key customer, vendor, or banker has a serious problem, they expect to talk to me.*
- My leadership team could run the business from our documented systems and processes without relying on my memory.*
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- Managers regularly escalate issues to me that they could reasonably solve themselves.*
- If I stopped personally solving problems tomorrow, most of them would still get solved.*
- I could take six weeks off with no phone and nothing important would break.*
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- If a new hire asked three of our people why they stay, they would tell a similar story.*
- When I am not in the room, our culture and values drift.*
- I am the biggest constraint on our company's growth right now.*
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- We can attract strong candidates without me personally recruiting or selling them on the company.
- Our top performers stay because of the company and their leaders, not just their relationship with me.
- When a key person leaves, we usually have someone ready to step into the role.
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