The Problem: The Leader has become the System
A technical leader can become a bottleneck when too many important activities route through them. The coaching work makes that dependency visible and explores which decision rights, principles, and feedback loops need to change.
The Five Stages of The Push
The Push treats delegation as an operating-model transition, focusing on how knowledge, judgment, and risk are managed:
- Diagnose the dependency: Find where the leader is the default route.
- Expose the Invisible Executor: Make hidden heroic work explicit.
- Clarify decision rights: Separate independent and escalated decisions.
- Transfer judgment, not only work: Build the team's ability to decide.
- Build strategic capacity: Protective time for direction and design.
Uncomfortable truth
A team can look busy and still be structurally dependent on one person for the work that matters most.