How to delegate decisions without losing control
A practical decision-rights framework for founders who've become the bottleneck — with the exact thresholds to write down this week.
What you’ll take away
- The decision queue: how founders become the constraint
- Writing decision rights: spend, concessions, hiring, publishing
- The offline-fortnight test
Chapters
- 00:00 — The founder bottleneck
- 02:30 — Decision rights, written down
- 06:15 — Delegation without abdication
- 08:52 — Testing it: the offline fortnight
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