Bottlenecks is all founders need to focus on
I articulated a focus strategy for founders that centers on eliminating all but the top two bottlenecks in the business.
- Adopt a “top‑2 bottlenecks only” rule to concentrate resources.
- Implement a weekly decision audit to identify low‑value founder interruptions.
- Eliminate one entire decision‑making category permanently.
- Keep a rapid‑adjust roster to hire or fire within 2‑4 weeks of bottleneck reassessment.
Methods: run an impact‑effort matrix with the core team to pick the two highest‑impact items, prune any task not addressing those bottlenecks, list all decisions that landed on the founder’s desk each week, and hand off an entire decision category to a trusted lead.