Nothing’s moving

With all your responsibility and influence you have fingers in lots of pies. Everything passes over your desk as you’re necessarily kept in the loop so you can add the magic that got you into your chair. You’re humming with knowledge and news and connections and timings and relationships.

That’s how is should be.

But take it too far … so you’re the lynchpin everything revolves around, the keystone that holds everything up … and it all falls apart.

– If everything revolves around you, most things are spinning in place until you give them your attention. Which can’t happen if you’re busy with something else.

– Keystones hold things up, but they’re squeezed and fixed in place. So if you’re busy holding things up here, you’re holding up progress everywhere else.

You know you’ve created dependency when you complain that nobody has any initiative.

Skippy strategy: If nothing’s moving, get out of the way.

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