The work is getting done. Clients are being served. The firm is growing. The standards are high.
And yet, everything still seems to run through you.
Not because the team is incapable. Not because you do not trust them. Not because you are doing anything wrong.
But because the firm has outgrown the way you lead it.
This is the technician trap John Kormanik explored in his recent leadership coaching workshop for IR Global members. It is a familiar pattern for lawyers, founders and managing partners who have built their reputation on technical excellence. For years, their value came from doing the work, solving the problem, answering the question and being the person others relied on.
The expertise that built the business can, at a certain stage, begin to constrain it. Work slows when the founder steps away, strategic thinking is pushed behind client demands, and success starts to feel heavier than it should.
