Things They Don’t Teach You at Business School – #5: Systems Beat Superheroes

If you’re the only one who can do it right, you don’t have a business — you have a bottleneck.

Hoarding information is not leadership. It’s a power play, and one of the fastest ways to kill growth.

When everything depends on you — every approval, every decision, every piece of knowledge — you become the problem. You’re not the hero of your company; you’re the bottleneck that’s holding it hostage.

A good organization can function without its main decision-makers. That’s not a threat to authority — that’s the sign of a healthy system. It means you’ve built leaders around you. It means your team can think, decide, and solve problems even when you’re not there.

When everyone has to check with you before doing anything, you’ve built a cult of dependence, not a company.

Data and information don’t mean anything if you can’t connect the dots, synthesize insights, and explain what the problem is. Knowledge locked in one person’s head isn’t power — it’s liability.

If your organization has been around for more than three years and it’s still operationally chaotic — with no documentation, no processes, and no clear accountability — then you’re not running a business. You’re playing firefighter every day, and you might as well set it on fire and start over.

Sustainable businesses are built on systems, not superheroes.

Because systems don’t get tired. Systems don’t forget. Systems allow others to rise.

Make yourself replaceable — that’s how you make your business unstoppable.

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