The Founder's Bottleneck Checklist

A one-minute check to see where you stand on running the business instead of being run by it.

You built something that works. The real question is whether it works without you, or only because you're holding it together. Check every line that sounds like you.

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Decisions still run through you, big and small. Your team checks with you on choices they could make on their own.
You're working in the business way more than on it. Each day vanishes into doing and firefighting, and the big-picture work keeps getting pushed to the next week, every week.
Every new hire adds to your plate instead of clearing it. More people, more of your time, and somehow you never come out ahead.
Your business knowledge lives in your head. If you handed a task to someone else, they'd be stuck, because none of it is written down.
You can't actually take time off. Two days away and things start to slip.
Growth has stalled, and it's not for lack of demand. There's more coming in than you can take on.
Things get held up waiting on you. Nothing important goes out the door until you've reviewed it, even when your team could handle it.
You're doing work that shouldn't be yours to do. You know it.

Check whichever boxes apply, then see if you're getting in the way of your growth.

The Founder's Bottleneck Checklist

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