Leader time is not a personal productivity issue—it’s a system. How leaders allocate their time determines whether organizations operate reactively or improve intentionally. Before any other system can work, leader time must be structured to support prevention, clarity, and capability building.
When critical work lives in a few people’s heads, organizations become fragile. Real operational control—whether for owners or executives—comes from making work transferable, not perfect. This is the foundation for scale, delegation, and long-term value.
Growth eventually exposes the limits of personal effort. Step 4 of the Five Steps to Freedom helps owners and executives replace heroics with systems—creating clarity, discipline, and real operational freedom without bureaucracy.
Most Monthly Operating Reviews (MORs) are status updates, not management tools. A world-class MOR turns data into decisions, accountability into action, and strategy into results.