The Overloaded Manager
The Anchor Problem
Anchor is the state that names what happens when a role, a person, or a structure that once worked has not been updated to match what the organization has become. The drag compounds quietly — and adaptation is not resolution.
The Overloaded Manager
Three years ago she managed six people and ran the best team in the building. The org chart absorbed the growth. Nobody decided this on purpose — and now you're looking at her numbers wondering what changed about her, when nothing did.