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When growth is strong — but everything still comes back to you
On Tuesday, I wrote about a different kind of Capacity Season — the point where a growing firm reaches a new level, but the business still runs through the founder.
Since then, I’ve been thinking about the conversations I’ve had over the past few weeks with leaders in this scenario.
They’re all circling the same tension.
- The team is strong.
- The business is healthy.
- Growth is still happening.
But underneath it, leaders are asking questions like:
- Why do so many decisions still come back to me?
- Where am I still the bottleneck without realizing it?
- What does my role actually need to become now?
- How do I build leadership around me without losing the standards that got us here?
This isn’t a systems problem.
It’s a Leadership Capacity moment.
And it’s a very different kind of work.
- Less about doing.
- More about defining.
- Clarifying.
- Deciding what should — and shouldn’t — depend on you anymore.
It also means stepping into decisions you may not have had to make before:
- How leadership actually operates.
- How authority flows.
- How accountability is defined.
- How the business grows without you at the center.
These are the conversations I’m having with advisors right now.
Sometimes they turn into coaching.
Sometimes they don’t.
But almost every time, they create clarity.
And clarity is usually what unlocks the next level of growth.
If you’re in a season where the business is strong — but your role feels heavier, more central, or less clear than it should…
I’m opening time over the next few weeks for a few of these conversations.
If this sounds like where you are, you’re welcome to message me or use this link to schedule a time: Meet Robb.
No pressure. No pitch.
Just space to think out loud with someone who works in this stage every day.
Because eventually, growth doesn’t slow down because of the market.
It slows down when the business is still built around you.
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