Library/Leak 16

Non-utilized talent

A high-value person spending disproportionate time on low-value-per-hour work they could hand off but haven't. Distinct from "only I can do this": here someone else could, it just hasn't been handed off.

VestDelegateManual workB–D · weeks to months

How you know you have it

“Of everything on your plate this week, what could someone else do at 80% of your quality, and why is it still yours?”

What kind of leak it is

A touch leak — it costs interruptions of you

Does it need your judgment?

Usually not — this is mechanical.

A mechanical touch is an automation candidate: nothing is being decided, so a machine or a rule can hold it.

How to measure it

hours on work someone else could do × the gap between your value per hour and theirs

Annualized the same way everywhere: duration × frequency × people × 52.

Typical range — illustrative

highly variable; often the single largest number in an owner-operator audit once tallied

An order of magnitude to prime your eye, not a statistic and not a claim about anyone's result. The only number that matters is the one you measure.

The move — Delegate

The highest-leverage move in the library when it applies to the owner personally.

Where it lands in a Time P&L

Manual work

How long a fix takes

B–D · weeks to months

What to do about it

Tools that fix this

T-01Why Me?
For everything that reaches the owner, ask why it had to be that person.
Vest · Exit (open)

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