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Delegation does not work if you delegate the decision but keep the context. If something keeps coming back to the founder, check: Does the person have enough context? Do they know the boundaries? Are they genuinely allowed to decide?

A weekly one-hour meeting with eight people costs eight hours of organisational capacity. Run it for 50 weeks and the bill is 400 hours. Meeting Tax = people × duration × frequency Put a number on recurring meetings. Then make each one earn its place.

Growing businesses often add process around symptoms: Slow service → more people Slipping projects → more meetings Mistakes → more checks Before adding anything, ask: where does this problem actually start?

Founders often think being too involved means they need to delegate more. Sometimes. But a lot of founder bottlenecks aren't delegation problems. They're decision-design problems. Before telling someone to "just decide", ask: Why did this decision need me in the first place?