Is your middle delivering what you decided?
You set a priority and it leaves the boardroom clean. Then it passes through one layer, and another, and by the time it reaches the floor it has been reinterpreted, softened, and quietly rewritten into something you would not recognise.
You delegate a decision and it moves for a while. Then it stalls at a team boundary, waits for you to follow up, and defaults back to your desk (where it sits until you push it through yourself). Your leadership team agrees with you in the room, and the thing they actually thought shows up three weeks later as the reason it did not work. Results get missed, and the naming of it waits for you.
None of this shows up on a dashboard. It shows up as your calendar filling with things your middle layer was supposed to carry, and a quiet sense that your strategy is losing something on the way down.
Here is what I have found after a decade inside these organisations. The middle is where six structural gaps form first, because the middle is where the load lands. And every growing company has at least three of them already, which makes the only useful question a sharper one: which ones you have, how deep they run, and what they are quietly costing you in management capacity you cannot afford to lose.
Where your strategy loses shape. Six questions, one for each gap (Clarity, Alignment, Accountability, Trust, Feedback, Influence), built around what actually reaches the floor versus what you decided.
How deep the weak point runs. You get a read across all six rather than one blunt number, so you can tell a wobble from a structural fault before you spend a krona fixing the wrong one.
Which gap to address first. You finish knowing the one that is costing you most right now, and why the ones beneath it stay stuck until you deal with it.
I have run this diagnosis inside engineering and project organisations across the Nordics, with leaders at Geely and LTU, and with the project professionals at the Passion for Projects Congress, where 111 of them rated the work 3.8 out of 4.0.
Barbara Klein, VP, Passion for Projects
You answer six questions and you see your profile straight away. Read it on your own, sit with it, and decide whether anything in it is worth a conversation.
And if it is, the profile becomes the agenda. We spend twenty-five minutes on what it shows, I tell you what I see, and you decide whether there is anything here worth exploring. No pitch waiting at the end of it.