Solving for the Institutional Knowledge Trap

There's a specific kind of relief that shows up the moment a great outside hire starts working. The fog lifts. Decisions stop routing through you. You catch your first real glimpse of what running this business without being the bottleneck might actually feel like.
That relief is exactly the thing you should be suspicious of.
Because here's what nobody tells you when you bring in a fractional leader, a consultant or a senior specialist to break your founder dependency: a permanent fix and a temporary one feel identical at the start. You cannot tell them apart for months. And by the time the…