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Leadership traps and growth strategies<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Why is your indispensability the biggest barrier to scaling and how can you turn your company from a bottleneck to a growth engine?<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Estimated reading time: 7-10 minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The two roads<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Imagine two company directors. Let's call them Peter and Anna.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Peter is the classic leader trap<\/strong> prisoner. He's the first one in the office and he turns off the lights at night. He's on the copy of every email (just to keep him in the picture). All decisions go through his desk. If Peter goes on vacation, his company goes on life support. Peter is proud that life stops without him. He feels it's the measure of his importance, when in fact it's his prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna is often not in the office. Sometimes she is out for strategic meetings, sometimes she is picking up her child from nursery school. When Anna's not in the office, her company doesn't slow down. In fact, cases and projects are moving forward, clients don't even notice her absence and are just as satisfied. Anna is the growth strategy<\/strong> has chosen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter has a (manually) controlled, micro-managed and, although probably very well paid, but extremely stressful job \/ job<\/strong>. And Anna has a business that is not entirely dependent on her, and she can step off the merry-go-round for a while if she feels like it, or even sell her company because she has built something that works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Latest CoachLab experiences<\/strong> and the international literature (e.g. The Founder's Dilemma<\/em>) also show that most managers start as Peter, but need to become Anna for their company to survive growth. The gap between the two is not a lack of hard work, but a fundamental shift in strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A \"Busz-faktor\" \u00e9s a vezet\u0151i ego<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There is a morbid but very useful concept in software development: the \"Bus Factor\"<\/strong> (Bus factor). This number shows how many key people would have to be hit by a bus before the project would crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the number in your company is 1 - and that one person is you - you are not safe, you are in danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A classic Harvard Business Review study, the The Founder's Dilemma<\/em> (The Founder's Dilemma) highlights exactly this: the biggest pitfall for entrepreneurs is having to choose between control and growth. As long as you control 100%, your growth has a biological limit: your time and your energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many people believe that the delegation of control loss of control<\/a>. But in fact the control and thus sharing responsibility<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Insecure, inexperienced or novice managers tend to believe that they are the best and the brightest in the office or even in the whole company.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

If you're the smartest person in your company, you've hired the wrong people, or worse, you're not letting the right people flourish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leadership traps and growth strategies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Urgent vs. Important: The price of attention<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Why do we get caught up in the micro-genome? Why do we feel that we have to do everything?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A v\u00e1lasz gyakran fizikai vagy biol\u00f3giai. Amikor \"t\u00fczet oltunk\", amikor megoldunk egy hirtelen j\u00f6tt probl\u00e9m\u00e1t, az agyunk dopamint termel. H\u0151snek \u00e9rezz\u00fck magunkat. Hasznosnak. Ezzel szemben egy m\u0171k\u00f6d\u00e9si modellt vagy egy folyamatle\u00edr\u00e1st meg\u00edrni, vagy egy koll\u00e9g\u00e1t betan\u00edtani unalmasnak t\u0171nhet, \u00e9s az eredm\u00e9nye csak k\u00e9s\u0151bb l\u00e1tszik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Dwight D. Eisenhower's famous matrix<\/a> - a Clumbia University<\/a> aynaga ; a vezet\u0151k idej\u00e9nek nagy r\u00e9sz\u00e9t a \"Fontos, de Nem S\u00fcrg\u0151s\" kvadr\u00e1nsban kellene t\u00f6lteni\u00fck. Ez a strat\u00e9gia, a rendszer\u00e9p\u00edt\u00e9s, a csapatfejleszt\u00e9s. Ezzel szemben a CoachLab<\/a> based on the experience of<\/strong> a magyar kkv-vezet\u0151k 80%-a a \"S\u00fcrg\u0151s \u00e9s Fontos\" (t\u0171zolt\u00e1s) vagy a \"S\u00fcrg\u0151s, de Nem Fontos\" (m\u00e1sok helyett dolgoz\u00e1s) mez\u0151ben t\u00f6lti a napjait.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest trap of a manager is to control everything. When your presence is the key to day-to-day operations, you are the bottleneck in the system. But when you distribute decisions, information and responsibility - the system becomes faster, more stable and more scalable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Competence Trap: Linear vs. Exponential Growth<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In our work at CoachLab, we identify again and again a paradox that we at \"Kompetencia Csapd\u00e1j\u00e1nak\"<\/strong> we call it. This is the most dangerous trap a talented leader can fall into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is it about? It's about. you're too good<\/em> in your profession. Since you write the best copy, design the most beautiful house or close the most efficient deal, it seems logical that you should do it. But that logic is the death of growth. If the best operational person in your company is the CEO (that's you), then your company has no CEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A growth strategy does not mean taking on more. It means taking it to the next level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference between the two mentalities is huge:<\/p>\n\n\n\n