Leadership does not get heavier because the company grew. It gets heavier because the leader became the infrastructure.
Every external measure says success. Yet everything passes through you — every escalation, every approval, every decision that "just needs a quick check." Logic says experience should make leadership lighter. So why does it get harder precisely as you get better at it?
This book answers with a diagnosis most leadership books never reach: the costliest problem at the top is not effort, information, or talent. It is Identity-Role Fusion — the invisible structure in which the leader's identity has grown together with the functioning of the organization, until nothing can move without moving through them.