Inside Leadership

A firm owner I worked with had eight capable people on his team. He was still working sixty-hour weeks.

He'd hired well, and everyone on that team could do the work, but every decision still came back to him. Every question landed on his desk; projects tended to stall at the same point, waiting for...

Most owners of growing firms eventually arrive at the same uncomfortable realization. The team is genuinely capable, and yet the owner is still in the middle of everything. She is still the one who catches what falls through the cracks, gets called when something goes sideways, or can't quite step b...