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The SystemStep 1 of 5 · You found the pattern.
The pattern
Decisions always come back to me
A question comes up
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It escalates
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It waits on your desk
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Work stalls
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More questions come up
This isn't a delegation problem. It's a decision design problem.
If every decision returns to you, that isn't evidence of your importance. It's evidence that decisions have never been given anywhere else to live: no clear owners, no clear authority, no clear line between deciding and doing.