FOUNDER BOTTLENECK SCORECARD
In about five minutes, identify where your business depends most heavily on you and receive one corrective action to take first.
Answer based on current reality, not what is planned.
First Name
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Last Name
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Company Name
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Email
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Phone
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Annual Revenue
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How often do important decisions wait for you before work can move forward?
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Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always
How often does your team need your approval for decisions they should be able to make independently?
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Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always
How often do you step back into day-to-day work because you do not trust that it will be completed correctly without you?
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Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always
How often would operations slow down or become disorganized if you were unavailable for two weeks?
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Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always
How often is important work completed differently depending on who performs it?
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Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always
How often does your team rely on memory, messages, or verbal instructions instead of documented processes?
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Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always
How often do tasks get delayed, repeated, or missed because the handoff between people is unclear?
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Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always
How often do recurring operational problems return after you thought they had been fixed?
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Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always
How often are responsibilities unclear or shared by several people without one person being fully accountable?
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Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always
How often do you need to remind or chase team members to complete agreed-upon work?
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Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always
How often are performance problems allowed to continue because expectations or consequences are unclear?
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Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always
How often are you uncertain whether you have the right people in the right roles?
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Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always
How often does the team begin new projects before completing existing priorities?
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Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always
How often does urgent work replace the most important work?
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Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always
How often do meetings end without clear decisions, owners, and deadlines?
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Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always
How often do business priorities change before the team has enough time to execute them?
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Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always
How often do you discover operational problems only after they have affected a client, deadline, or financial result?
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Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always
How often do you make decisions based primarily on instinct because reliable operational data is unavailable?
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Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always
How often is it difficult to determine whether the business is improving from week to week?
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Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always
How often do team members lack clear measures showing whether they are succeeding in their roles?
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Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always