The hardest transition a founder makes is the shift from doing the work to building the system that does the work. Writing on the founder bottleneck, the operator-to-architect shift, and the leadership work scaling companies most often skip.
You've been called the bottleneck. The frame is half right. You are at the point where the work stops. The system you built is doing what it was designed to do.
The problem is not that people refuse to be held accountable. It is that accountability cannot be held by someone else at all. A frame for what coaching changes.
