The Busy Leaders. Leadership growth time fell from 15% to under 7% of hours, against about 25% at the normal firm. If nothing changes it slips to about 4%. Protecting it at 25% is the pulled forecast.
Illustrative. Juniper Ridge Advisory is a fictional firm with a full year of modeled data, analyzed the way we analyze yours.
How to calculate it
Three measures. Growth time is the share of leadership calendar hours spent on lever work, rather than on running operations or fixing problems. Rock alignment is the share of Rocks tied to a specific Growth Lever. Rock completion is the share of those Rocks that get done.
Five leaders with 35 hours each of non-delivery time a week, spending 9 of them on growth, have a growth time of about 26%. If 5 of 7 Rocks name a lever, Rock alignment is 71%.
Every quarter's Rocks are about fixing something. Growth is everyone's job, so it's nobody's.
Protected growth time on every leader's calendar, delegating fixes, and tying every Rock to a lever with one owner.
Leaders letting go of problems others can solve.
Growth time that's booked but not spent. Every other lever needs an owner who actually pulls it, and this lever tells you whether that's happening.