We dig into why growth stalls when roles blur and the founder stays the bottleneck. Forrest Durer shows how clear seats, weekly scorecards, and steady leadership cadence create accountability and make scaling calm and repeatable.

• common founder-led bottlenecks and warning signs
• seats defined by 5–7 responsibilities not titles
• building a simple pyramid with an integrator or COO
• activity-based KPIs and weekly scorecards
• busy work versus productive work
• weekly one-to-ones and leadership cadence
• documenting processes for onboarding and quality
• writing and using vision and core values daily
• letting go at the 80% standard to free the founder
• when and how to use fractional leaders