Bottleneck Leaders

Leaders should aim not to be a bottleneck in the process of building a healthy and growing organization. In manufacturing a bottleneck can be defined as a point of congestion in a system that occurs when workloads arrive at a given point more quickly than that point can handle them.

 In an organization, the bottleneck can be the leader. When this happens, progress stalls and growth is limited.

Here are 7 characteristics of the bottleneck leader:

• Every decision ultimately goes through the leader…
• Dreaming is limited to the pre-determined boundaries of the leader…
• Waiting for the leader to make a decision becomes awkward and wastes time…
• There is no clear vision or direction for the organization…
• The leader never delegates…
• Potential leaders aren’t recruited…they are controlled…
• Everyone waits on the leader to make the first move…

Leaders, ask yourself this question: Are you a bottleneck in your organization?

If you aren’t certain, perhaps you should ask your team.