How to delegate decisions without losing control
The CEO bottleneck, and the fix: writing down who decides what — spend, concessions, hiring and publishing — then testing it with the offline fortnight.
What you’ll take away
- The decision queue: how the CEO becomes the constraint
- Writing decision rights: spend, concessions, hiring, publishing
- The offline fortnight test
Chapters
- 00:00 — The CEO bottleneck
- 02:30 — Decision rights, written down
- 06:15 — Delegation without abdication
- 08:52 — Testing it: the offline fortnight
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