The Hub

Almost everything routes through you. Decisions wait for your input, problems find their way back to your desk, and a day away from the business is a day the business slows down.

This is not a discipline problem. It is what happens when responsibility concentrates faster than structure catches up — and most founders running a real team hit it.

Relief comes from redesigning where decisions live, not from working faster. The next move is to see the pattern more precisely.