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At some point in the growth of an interior design firm, the problem is no longer your design talent, your clients, or even the number of people on your team.

Sometimes the constraint is sitting in the owner's chair.

In Part 5 of The Design Business Diagnostic, I'm diving into CEO Leadership and what it actually means to lead a growing design firm without becoming the bottleneck in every decision, project, and process.

There's a big difference between staying informed and staying involved in everything. A CEO needs visibility into the company without personally performing every task inside it.  

In this episode, I'm talking about:

• Why your interior design business may have outgrown the way you're currently leading it
• The difference between delegation, micromanagement, and abdication
• Why visibility doesn't require involvement
• How to determine your highest-value work as the owner
• Why “I can do this” doesn't mean “I should do this”
• The four areas I think about in CEO Leadership: vision, culture, systems and processes, and accountability
• Why your time, attention, and creative energy have real economic value
• How to identify the work where your involvement creates disproportionate value
• How founders accidentally train their teams to ask permission for everything
• The systems that allow you to maintain visibility without micromanaging
• How to delegate outcomes and authority—not just tasks
• Why someone doing something differently doesn't automatically mean they're doing it wrong
• The five-day CEO time audit I want you to complete this week
• Why your value isn't measured by how many things require you

Strong CEO Leadership doesn't mean disappearing from your company. It means knowing what genuinely requires your judgment, protecting those activities, and building the people and systems that allow everything else to happen without your constant involvement.

If you know you're still sitting in the middle of too much inside your firm, book a complimentary Business Diagnostic Call at FixMyDesignBiz.com. We'll diagnose what's actually creating the bottleneck and determine what your business needs to move forward.  

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