How much power have you really been delegated?

Not your title.

Not your business card.

Not your “I’ll check internally and come back to you.”

Your real power.

Can you sign?

Can you approve?

Can you move the deal forward?

Or are you just another expensive messenger with a nice email signature?

Look.

I’ve seen companies with the best people you can imagine.

Smart people.

Experienced people.

People who could solve problems in five minutes if someone simply gave them the authority to do it.

But then…

The company has rules.

Processes.

Committees.

Approvals.

Escalation matrices.

Internal reviews.

Pre-reviews before the real reviews before the meeting where nothing is decided.

All designed, allegedly, to avoid stupid people making big mistakes.

And, of course, to inflate the ego of the bosses.

It’s heartbreaking.

Nothing.

I repeat.

Nothing says “leadership” like making ten clever people wait for one senior person to approve something he barely understands.

That’s bad.

If your processes don’t empower your people, maybe the first question is not:

“How do we improve the process?”

Maybe the real question is:

“Did we hire the right people?”

Because if you need to treat competent adults like children, you either hired the wrong people…

Or you built the wrong company.

And if you are one of those good people stuck in that machine…

Sorry.

You are probably in the wrong place.

Or maybe worse.

You were too shy to ask for the room.

Too polite to ask for authority.

Too comfortable being “involved” instead of being responsible.

There is a difference.

Being copied in an email is not power.

Being invited to a meeting is not power.

Giving comments on a draft is not power.

Power is deciding.

Power is committing.

Power is being trusted with consequences.

And yes, that comes with risk.

That’s the price.

You don’t get real authority without real exposure.

But that’s also how careers change.

That’s how people stop being “good professionals” and become serious operators.

Let me explain how to get there.

It’s in one of the lessons you’ll find in the link below.

​The Room​

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