Too many managers claim they want empowered employees—until someone makes a decision without asking permission.

Then leadership turns into surveillance. Meetings multiply. Reviews pile up. Initiative gets strangled in the name of “alignment.”

In this episode of Ignoring the Rules, Wayne Robertson takes aim at the control addiction killing productivity inside teams. Real leadership is not about building cages and calling them standards. It is about creating guardrails that let people think, decide, act, and grow.

Because if every decision has to go through you, you are not leading.

You are the bottleneck.