If you are a CTO and your calendar is wall-to-wall with approvals, escalations, and last-minute emergencies, this is your sign. If you are a CTO and your calendar is wall-to-wall with approvals, escalations, and last-minute emergencies, this is your sign. decision-making. If you are a CTO and your calendar is wall-to-wall with approvals, escalations, and last-minute emergencies, this is your sign.If you are a CTO and your calendar is wall to wall with approvals, escalations, and last minute emergencies, this is your sign.
You are not leading the tech org. You are acting as the nervous system.
Every time there is ambiguity, it routes to you.
Every time there is risk, it routes to you.
That does not make you a hero. It makes your company fragile.
If the system only works when you are exhausted, the system does not actually work.
Firefighting gets rewarded. It becomes expected. And slowly, you become the bottleneck.
The real shift is redesigning decision making so you can stop being the approval layer and start being the architect.
If this hits close to home, take the Firefighter CTO Quiz at gtle.show/FirefighterQuiz
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