Leadership Pattern Analysis

You are the lid on your own growth.

Arhetype: The Bottleneck

⚠ Is this really you?

You are reading a diagnosis for The Bottleneck, but without your assessment data, this is just a guess.

The Hard Truth

You’ve built a 'Hub and Spoke' model where every decision routes through you. The hard truth: You haven't built a business; you've built a high-paying job you can't quit.

Symptoms & Indicators

The Diagnosis

Your business runs on your horsepower, not your systems.

Primary Indicator

"You answered that you 'Sign off on everything'. This is the #1 killer of scalability."

Risk Level

High Risk for Burnout

From the book "Pull the Chute: Taking Your Business to New Heights"

The FreeDrive Lesson: When the Leader is the Failure Point

"At FreeDrive, we grew to 28 million users. But I learned the hard way that a leader's 'hands-on' control becomes the company's ceiling. By trying to be the safety net for every decision, I was arguably becoming the single point of failure. I had to learn to fire myself from daily operations to let the company scale beyond me."

The Prescription

Shift from Expert (doing the work) to Leader (building the machine).

Your One Action Step

The 'Decision Audit': For 48 hours, write down every decision you make. Circle the ones a $50k employee could have made. Stop making them.

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Deep dives into the problems you are facing right now.

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