If your team asks you to approve things like lunch orders, calendar invites, or formatting choices, you’ve accidentally become the Chief Permission Officer.
This bottleneck drains your time, chips away at their confidence, and slows the whole company down.
In this episode of She’s That Founder, I’m sharing the 2-Minute Rule and how to use AI to retrain your team so they stop asking for permission on every little thing and start making confident decisions on their own.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Why even your smartest hires default to asking permission—and why it’s actually a sign of respect, not incompetence
- The 2-Minute Rule framework that frees you from constant approvals
- Three AI systems that help your team build decision-making confidence:
- Decision Classifier (sorts yes/no/judgment call decisions)
- Confidence Builder (validates their reasoning against company context)
- Documentation Trail (tracks choices for accountability and improvement)
- How to run a Permission-to-Autonomy Conversation that explicitly shifts your team from approval-seeking to independent action
Episode at a Glance
- [00:00] – Why approval-seeking slows everything down
- [03:00] – The 2-Minute Rule explained
- [07:00] – Three AI systems that train autonomy
- [14:00] – The Permission-to-Autonomy conversation
Resources and Links Mentioned in This Episode
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