Coaching & Perspectives

Everything in this series so far has been a one-time exercise. Find the pattern. Name the role. Take one thing off. Each of those is worth doing once, and each of them decays. That is not pessimism, it is just how a busy quarter works. The week fills back in. The request you would have declined in September arrives in November, when you are tired, and it is easier to say yes. Three months after the subtraction, most leaders are carrying the same load in a different shape. So

Last month I wrote about where a leader's time actually goes, and the exercise that shows you. Most people who run it land somewhere near fifteen percent on the work only they can do, and almost everyone thinks that work is higher. Because that is where they spend their time. The number is useful. It is not the finding. The finding is the reason the month took that shape, and it is almost always the same reason. Founders write every job description in the organization. Almost

Ask a leader how they ended up spending their week and you will not hear about a mistake. You will hear about a sequence of reasonable decisions. A client needed something adjacent to what the company does, and the revenue was real, so they took it. Someone left and the gap got covered from the top, just until they hired, and then hiring got hard or training the new person got pushed off because of ‘busy.’ A customer asked for something and it became a product line nobody wan