The 48 Hour Owner Dependency Audit: What Still Has to Come Through You?
You answer a question in 30 seconds. But how long did everyone else wait for that answer?
In Episode 003 of The STREAMLINED. Podcast, Easton Wiechert and Kat break down The 48-Hour Owner Dependency Audit: What Still Has to Come Through You?
This is a simple exercise across two normal working days. Keep answering calls and supporting your team while recording the moments work needs your information, decision, approval, or intervention.
We cover the five details to capture, why a quiet phone can hide work waiting in your pile, and how to recognize when you pull a task back from someone who was already handling it.
Through service-business examples involving scheduling, purchasing, customer commitments, and job readiness, we show how similar interruptions can have different causes—and different questions can point to the same missing handoff.
You’ll learn how to review the list with your team, choose one recurring dependency with a clear boundary, and check whether the change helps work move correctly without requiring you every time.
Your starting point: finish the sentence, “This work keeps waiting for me because…” Then name the first change you’ll try.
Try the exercise and message Streamlined with AUDIT. Tell us what surprised you, which pattern repeated, or where you caught yourself taking work back. Leave out customer names and private details.
