This situation leads to decision delays, bad decisions due to inadequate information and prevents upper management from working on other critical tasks.
Solution Path
There are several potential causes for overloading upper management with decisions that other could or should be making.
EOS provides several tools that are useful to work through this issue. If the firm is already using EOS, some adjustments are needed to resolve the issue.
If firm is not using EOS, the tools can still be applied to address the issue, although full EOS implementation may be the best long-term solution.
The EOS tools most suited to this situation include;
The tools mentioned above are described in “Traction” by Gino Wickman as part of the EOS Operating System.