This is how strong leaders become the bottleneck

At a certain level, more and more starts getting routed to you.
You become where problems land and get worked through.

Decisions move through you.
Gaps get handed to you.
Your thinking starts to set the direction others move in.

It doesn’t happen all at once.
And it doesn’t look like a problem.

It looks like trust. It looks like influence.

And because it works, it continues.

But over time, it changes how you’re operating.

You’re no longer just working within a system.
You’re the one the system depends on to keep moving.

That shift is subtle. But it has consequences.

More responsibility sits with you than should.
More decisions rely on you than need to.
And the leadership around you doesn’t step up at the level it could.

Because the environment has learned to rely on you in a very specific way.

At this level, leadership isn’t just defined by what you own.
It’s defined by what keeps coming back to you to resolve.

Here’s to leadership that isn’t built on everything running through you,
Denée

P.S. If you’ve become the point everything moves through, it’s worth looking at what that’s creating over time. You can book a Strategy Call here.​

Denée Choice, MD, MMM
Leadership Strategist & Executive Coach | Choice Leadership Consulting

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