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Why am I the bottleneck in my company?

You are the bottleneck when decisions still need your approval before work can move. The first move is not another speech about ownership. Transfer one recurring decision with a boundary, an escalation rule, and permission not to quietly reverse it.

A glass narrow point holding back piles of business requests before they can move forward. — The work can pile up even when everyone knows the next step.

Start with the decision that came back twice this week. Name who should own it, where the limit sits, when it must escalate, and what you will stop reversing.

Good people cannot carry authority they were never given. A title does not move the decision. A boundary does.

The hard part is usually not naming the new owner of the decision. The hard part is letting the normal call stand when you would have chosen differently.

A manager making a normal decision while exception work stays separated for escalation. — A boundary works only when the normal call can stand without a private second approval.

If the answer changes the decision, bring the actual decision.

Use the answer to name the issue. Use ongoing coaching when the same authority loop keeps returning and a real business decision is already live.

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