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Mike Mahony | Remove the Bottleneck

@removebotneck

Stop being the bottleneck. I help operational leaders reclaim their time and scale their business using the Decentralized A-Team method.

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Joined June 2023
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Your org chart is your architecture. Conway's Law (1968): organizations build systems that mirror their communication structure. Most CTOs apply this to code. Almost none apply it to themselves. Thread. 🧵
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The fix isn't delegation. Delegation without decision rights is just a permission system wearing a leadership costume. Three things must change: • Decision rights • Domain boundaries • Escalation triggers Build those three. The SPOF disappears.
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Conway's Law doesn't care about your intentions. It reflects your structure. Change the structure. Distribute decision rights. Build an org that runs when you're dark. Right now, your architecture has a single point of failure. It has your name on it.
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In 2002, Bezos mandated every team expose data through a formal service interface. No back-channels. No exceptions. Non-compliance gets you fired. Nobody called it a product launch. The byproduct was AWS. Decentralize the architecture or stay the bottleneck.
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Delegation without decision rights is a permission system in a leadership costume.
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5 engineers. 2 days waiting. 1 reversible vendor decision. That's 10 person-days burned on a call that should have taken 20 minutes. Nobody flagged it. The approval came through. Work moved. Nothing visibly broke. That's not being careful. That's the decision tax.
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Control doesn't scale. Clarity does. #leadership
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The hardest transition in tech? Moving from writing code to building teams. I’m launching The CTO Edge—a no-fluff Substack covering the messy reality of tech leadership. First issue dropped today! 👇🚀 thectoedgte.substack.com/sub…
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If everything in your org keeps landing on your desk, the problem isn’t your team. It’s your structure. youtu.be/LeoP43RgUoo
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Try this: Think of one decision in your inbox right now. Ask yourself: “Why does this actually need me?” That answer is where your bottleneck lives.
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Leadership isn’t about being the best firefighter. It’s about building a system that doesn’t catch fire. This came from one of the most honest breakdowns of leadership systems I’ve seen: youtu.be/LeoP43RgUoo
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