A while back, I sat with a CEO who had built a genuinely good leadership team. Smart people. Well-intentioned. Real commitment to the company. And yet nobody was holding anybody to anything. Deadlines slipped. Decisions got relitigated. And the CEO was quietly filling the holes herself, wondering why everything kept routing back to her. Why This Looks Like a People Problem (And Isn’t) If you lead a team, you’ve probably lived some version of this. And the instinct is to read