For founders, C-level & HR
Build a business that doesn't wait for permission.
Don't just ask whether managers delegate. Ask whether staff can act. A manager scoring 85 while their team averages 25 is a leadership fracture worth investigating — the system, not just the score.
The 360° gap · illustrative
60point gap
The manager reports more autonomy than staff experience — delegated authority isn't translating into daily independence.
Talent Positioning Suite · development pathways
Job title ↔ competency ↔ authority.
Business acumen & commercial awareness
For low [A] Administration or [B] Business: operational liquidity, basic P&L and ROI forecasting so managers can trust financial boundaries.
Executive communication & situational leadership
For Rising Stars ready for promotion, or managers causing a bottleneck: move from directing tasks to coaching people.
Technical & systems mastery
For low [T] Technology or [O] Operations: get institutional knowledge out of the manager's head and into the systems.
VentureBaseline ecosystem
Start with the founder lens.
mpwrd.work measures how staff depend on their managers. VentureBaseline's Founder Dependency Assessment measures how the business depends on its founder. Together they map every bottleneck.
Founder Dependency AssessmentLead by example
Take the manager self-assessment.
Score how independently you believe your team works, then compare.