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EP 02BUSINESS
The Change That Stopped Every Decision Coming Back to the Founder
Hosted by Kevin Kasaei
In this episode
One change to who decides what, and what it took to make it stick.
When every decision comes back to the founder, the founder becomes the bottleneck. We look at how to hand decisions over in steps, and how to tell if it’s working.
What to measure
- Decisions waiting on you
- This is the bottleneck in one number. You want it going down week after week.
- Decisions that come back
- A few is normal. A lot means the rule isn’t clear or the step was too big.
- Decisions you’d undo
- This tells you when it’s safe to move someone up a step, and when to slow down.
The steps
- 01List the decisions that wait on you
- 02Set a step for each one
- 03Tell the team, out loud
- 04Review every two weeks
Your turn
Pick one decision you make all the time that someone else could clearly handle. Tell that person: from now on, you decide this and tell me after. Then don’t touch it for a week, even if you’d do it a bit differently.
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Kevin KasaeiHost
The playbook for this episode / No. 05
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Decision list
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