If you’ve ever felt the weight of a decision come bouncing back to your desk like a high-speed boomerang, you know the frustration. You "delegated" it. You told the team what needed to happen. You might have even given them a deadline. And yet, there you are, at 6:00 PM on a Tuesday, reviewing a document you thought someone else was handling, or worse, making a choice that should have been made three levels down. Most founders and senior leaders view this as a "people problem

Our monthly Executive Roundtables bring together a group of founders and senior leaders from both mid-sized firms and enterprise-level organizations. These sessions are designed as protected executive conversations: spaces for leaders who are often carrying more than their current organizational systems can hold. The theme of the discussion was a challenge that plagues almost every growing organization: "When Everyone Is Busy but No One Really Owns It." In these environments,