Diagnostic
Team Traffic Lighting
Rate every team green, amber or red — delivery, self-improvement, ability to scale — so org attention goes where the company is actually blocked.
Run it in org reviews and quarterly planning, and whenever you're deciding where the founder dives in next. This rates the team itself, not its goals — pair it with OKRs and let the goals carry their own colours.
The three lights
| Light | What it looks like |
|---|---|
| Green | Excelling: getting stuff done, self-improving, able to scale itself for the next period. |
| Amber | Delivers on some things but not reliably; not self-improving; unsure about its ability to scale for the next period. |
| Red | Failing: wasting a lot of time, not getting things done — perhaps infighting. |
The lights tell the founder where to go. Dive into the red team and force it, build the system until it's forming, leave when it flows — then check the board and pick the next one. In the early years you'll bounce around the org like this constantly; the skill is leaving every team more independent than you found it.
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