The Burdened Leader

Most decisions in the business eventually find their way back to you. Approvals queue up. Questions wait. The day ends with a list that didn't move because you were busy carrying everyone else's.

This isn't a discipline failure. It is what happens when responsibility concentrates faster than structure can catch up — and almost every founder running a team of this scale hits it.

Relief comes from redesigning where decisions live, not from working faster. The next move is to see exactly how meetings are absorbing that load.