If you took 30 days off, would your company grow, stall, or collapse?
Your answer is your diagnosis.
If it grows, you've built a system: clear decision criteria, a culture that can make decisions, and processes that hold the standard without you in the room. That is rare — and it is the goal.
If it stalls, you have a team that executes but doesn't make decisions. The operation runs, but nothing moves forward: every new move waits for you to come back. The team isn't weak — it has learned to wait.
If it collapses... you don't have a company. You have an expensive job that needs you every single day. The knowledge, the judgment, and the authority live in one head: yours.
Most founders never ask themselves this question — because they already sense the answer and would rather not hear it. But the diagnosis is the beginning of the work, not the end of the story. The way out isn't working harder. It's changing the leader's pattern — and building the decision-making, culture, and systems that work without you.
You just took the test — don't waste the answer. When you're ready to turn the diagnosis into a plan, schedule a conversation with me.
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