The 5 CEO Bottlenecks
Slowing Your $10M–$25M Company
A 10‑minute self‑scorecard that shows where you’re personally choking speed, ownership, and execution – and which bottleneck to fix first.
Takes about 10 minutes. 100% private. No credit card.
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Who This Is For
If you’re a CEO, owner, or president of a $10M–$25M, multi‑location, operations‑heavy business and you suspect:
- The business only really moves when you get involved
- Every big decision still rolls up to you
- Your leaders are smart, but ownership is uneven across locations
- …this is built for you.
In 10 minutes you’ll:
See where you may be unintentionally slowing the company down
Spot blind spots between how you see yourself and how your team likely experiences you
Pick one leadership bottleneck to focus on over the next 90 days
What You’ll Score Yourself On
Most early eight‑figure CEOs don’t have a strategy problem; they have a bottleneck problem. This scorecard helps you rate yourself across five areas where CEOs at your level usually slow things down:
- Strategic Clarity & Focus
How sharp and protected your top priorities are – and whether your calendar and team behavior match.
- Decision Speed & Follow‑Through
Whether critical calls move fast and stay closed, or keep bouncing back to you.
- Delegation & Ownership
How much of the business still runs through you vs leaders 1–2 levels down.
- Trust & Psychological Safety
How safe it is for people to bring you bad news, risk, and half‑baked ideas early.
- Communication & Visibility
How well your people understand what’s going on and what to do without you in the room.
You’ll rate simple, concrete statements in each area, then we’ll show you how to interpret the totals so you can choose a single 90‑day focus.
Answer 5 sets of questions (about 10 minutes)
Rate simple statements from 1–5. No one sees this but you (and, if you choose, your coach).
Score and interpret your results.
We’ll email you a simple scoring guide so you can see which areas are strengths, which are mixed, and which are likely bottlenecks – plus where you might have blind spots.
Choose one 90‑day focus.
You’ll walk away knowing the single leadership bottleneck most worth fixing first, and a few prompts to turn that into a concrete 90‑day experiment.
At $10M–$25M with multiple locations, your problems change:
- You can’t outwork the bottlenecks anymore.
- “Hero” leadership doesn’t scale across locations.
- Every extra decision that routes through you quietly taxes speed, morale, and profit.
Most CEOs at your stage never stop long enough to see exactly how they’re in their own way. This scorecard is a fast, honest mirror so you can:
- Stop treating symptoms (more meetings, more dashboards, more “urgents”)
- See where your own behavior is teaching the organization to wait for you
- Decide where a small shift in how you lead could unlock outsized speed and ownership
If you’re earlier‑stage vs already at $10M–$25M
- If you’re earlier than $10M, or you’re not ready to involve your team yet, this scorecard is the right place to start. Treat it as a DIY diagnostic you can revisit every quarter.
- If you’re already running a $10M–$25M, multi‑location, operations‑heavy company, this scorecard is just step one. At your level, what really moves the needle is not just how you see yourself, but how your execs, key managers, and board experience you day‑to‑day.
That’s what our 14-Day Executive Leadership Diagnostic is built for.
Once you complete the scorecard, you’ll have the option to book a short 20‑minute Executive Leadership Diagnostic Call where we can:
- Review your scorecard and highlight your most likely bottlenecks
- Talk through how a 360 would look with your team and locations
- Decide together whether it’s worth starting there now, later, or not at all
How long does this take?
About 10 minutes to complete the questions, and another 5–10 to review your scores and reflection prompts.
Is this really private?
Yes. The scorecard report is for you first. You decide if and how you share it with your team, board, or anyone else.
Our scorecard tool does collect the information you submit, but we treat it as confidential and only use it to support you or in anonymized, aggregate form.
Are you going to pitch me something?
On the next page and in the follow‑up email, I’ll offer a short 15‑minute Executive Leadership Diagnostic Call. If you’re under $10M, you can ignore it and just use the tool. If you’re in the $10M–$25M, multi‑location range, that call is usually the smartest next step so we can see whether an Executive 360 Snapshot makes sense. No hard close.
What does it cost?
The scorecard is free. The only paid work I do with CEOs off the back of this is through a separate Executive 360 Snapshot and 90‑day coaching engagement, which we’ll discuss only if it makes sense for you.
Takes about 10 minutes. 100% private. No credit card.