Leadership Insights for CEOs and Founders

Perfectionism holds back founders and CEOs because the standards that built the business turn into fear driven control. They review every decision, delegate little and pass the pressure on to their teams, so growth stalls around them. The way out is to separate what a standard protects from what it costs.

Self-awareness for founders and CEOs develops in seven stages, from not seeing the problem at all to coaching yourself through it. Most leaders stall at stages two or three, aware but ignoring the issue or trying to solve it alone. The shift comes when you stop treating yourself as separate from the problem.