It Never Starts as Control
- Aug 10
- 1 min read
A couple weeks ago you met the Gatekeeper — the leader everything routed through, who called it high standards. Here’s how it starts, because it never starts as control. It starts as care.
You catch a mistake, so you start reviewing. The review helps, so you review more. One “run it by me” at a time, you become the place every decision stops. And because it all waits on you, nothing moves faster than you can.
You didn’t set out to be the bottleneck. You handed yourself the job, one helpful correction at a time. Tomorrow: how to know if it’s you.
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