Take the Bottleneck Scorecard

Feel like every decision still goes through you… What kind of bottleneck is that?

Why do some founders break past their ceiling while the rest stay stuck? It's rarely the strategy. It's whether decisions, accountability, the planning rhythm, and the day-to-day ops all move without you in the middle.

Takes about 4 minutes · Private and Confidential

Richard Cussons
Who's marking it

I've been the bottleneck. I've spent forty years being the fix. I'm a fractional COO and integrator. Not a coach.

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The six kinds

Six kinds of bottleneck. You're one of them.

The founders who break free have built a business that grows and runs without them profitably. The ones who stay stuck haven't, and usually don't know which part is the real bottleneck.

The scorecard names which kind of bottleneck you've become, shows exactly where it breaks, what it's costing you in hours and cash a year, and the first move to make.

  • The Tollbooth

    Your team's capable. So why does everything still stop at your desk?

  • The Hand Crank

    You handed over the decisions. So why are you still the most tired person in the building?

  • The Day Trader

    Sharp in the moment. Good calls. So why does the year never quite go where you meant it to?

  • The Pilot Light

    The strange one. The business is basically fine. So why can't you put it down?

  • The Fuse

    Everything runs through you, evenly. No one weak spot, because it's all the same spot. Oddly, that's the good news.

  • The Flywheel

    It runs without you. Genuinely. Rare at your size. If that's you, the scorecard says so.

20 questions · about 4 minutes · free · private

Bottleneck scorecard questions

Question 1 of 20
Are you the bottleneck?
The Bottleneck Scorecard

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