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You think being constantly needed means you’re leading — but it may be the sign of a fragile system.

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If your calendar is packed with approvals, escalations, and last-minute decisions, this breakdown explains why that behavior gets rewarded and why it quietly turns you into the bottleneck. You’ll see how firefighting becomes expected, why ambiguity always routes to you, and why trying harder only deepens the trap.

What we cover in this episode:

Why constant firefighting looks like leadership from the outside

How organizations reward behavior that makes them fragile

What it really means to be the “default decision authority”

Why ambiguity has no natural ceiling for a CTO

How competent leaders accidentally become the infrastructure

Chapters:
00:00:00 The quiet truth about wall-to-wall CTO calendars
00:00:28 Why being needed doesn’t make you a hero
00:01:10 Firefighting gets rewarded and reinforced
00:02:05 How expectations quietly get trained into teams
00:03:10 The real definition of a firefighter CTO
00:04:10 Why ambiguity makes the role unsustainable
00:05:20 How high performers inherit control
00:06:05 When competence gets centralized instead of scaled

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If your calendar is wall-to-wall approvals, escalations, and “quick questions,” you’re not short on time—you’re trapped in firefighting mode. Take the Firefighter CTO Quiz to see whether you’re actually leading or quietly holding the whole system together by sheer exhaustion.

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