Ouch. We lose 40% of our capacity to the manual labor of "verifying." Nicely done Stephanie! IHMO, documentation is the ultimate asynchronous API for human capital. A Leader’s #1 job is to drive clarity, accountability and decision making. It’s not about telling your to “WHAT” to think, it’s about aligning on “HOW” we think. If your team can’t function without a meeting to "clarify," you aren't scaling. Period.
Nobody told me the CEO was losing confidence in me. No direct conversation. No formal feedback.I just had to read the room. Every time I presented the roadmap in a leadership meeting, the questions got sharper. Not curious questions - challenging ones. The kind that signal doubt, not interest. I wrote about it here: