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You don’t have an HR problem — you have a constraint on growth
Nobody wakes up thinking “today I have an HR problem.” Founders wake up thinking: we’re missing targets. I can’t find good leaders. Margins are shrinking and nobody can tell me why. Everything still runs through me. Those aren’t functional complaints. They’re symptoms — and the business function that eventually gets blamed is rarely the actual…
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The founder bottleneck: why hiring more people isn’t fixing it
Most founders solve the bottleneck the same way: they hire. The org chart says the company needs a VP of Sales, a controller, a head of ops — so they run a search, make an offer, and wait for the pressure to lift. Six months later, the pressure hasn’t lifted. There’s just one more salary…