Leadership in Growth – Awareness
Growth is a beautiful thing—until the moment it starts to feel chaotic rather than energizing.
Many entrepreneurs experience this without immediately realizing what’s happening. The company grows, the team grows… yet you start feeling drained, overloaded, and constantly “on call.”
That’s usually a clear indicator of one thing:
your team has outgrown you.
Not as a leader, but as the single engine powering the organization.
Here are the five most common signs.
1. Decisions keep coming back to you
You hired talented people, yet all important decisions still end up on your desk.
Not because your team can’t make them—
but because you unknowingly stayed in the role of the central decision-maker.
This blocks both team growth and ownership.
2. Everyone is working hard, but results stay behind
A team that has outgrown its leader often feels busy, rushed, and stretched…
yet impact is low.
This isn’t a workload problem.
It’s a clarity problem—around roles, expectations, priorities, and behavioral agreements.
When those aren’t clear, effort becomes noise.
3. You still solve problems that someone else should handle
A classic sign:
You can clearly see which team member should solve a problem… and yet you jump in yourself.
Because it’s faster.
Because it’s “easier.”
Because you think no one else will do it as well.
This mindset keeps the team small—
and keeps you stuck in operational survival.
4. Team members wait for instructions instead of taking initiative
When people wait for your signal, it’s rarely due to lack of initiative.
It’s usually because the rules of ownership aren’t clear.
Teams without clarity hesitate.
Teams with clarity accelerate.
5. You feel more noise than energy
The most reliable indicator?
Does your team give you energy, or take it away?
If you feel:
• tired after meetings,
• responsible for connecting all the dots,
• the primary driver of motivation and progress,
…then your team is operating in a different phase than you are.
And that’s not a failure.
It’s simply a sign that leadership needs to shift.
What’s the next step?
A team that has outgrown you doesn’t need more control or more meetings—
it needs a leadership reset.
That starts with insight:
👉 Where is each team member today?
👉 Which behavioral styles help—or hinder—progress?
👉 Which team phase are you truly in?
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