In this episode of The Leadership Amplifier, Jimmy Burroughes gets practical about a problem most senior leaders quietly recognise: the organisation isn’t slow because people don’t care, it’s slow because the leadership system is congested. Drawing on real-world work with 3,000+ leaders, Jimmy introduces the ROLES framework as a simple way to create role and decision clarity. He shows how to use ROLES to reset responsibilities, objectives, leadership limits, experience requirements and support so managers can actually own decisions instead of endlessly escalating them. Across a focused 10 minutes, you’ll learn a commercial, no-fluff way to:
Spot structural friction—decisions held too high, endless escalations, meetings full of updates not accountability
Apply the ROLES framework to your top recurring decisions so work, authority and outcomes sit at the right level
Redesign your own calendar and meeting system so senior time is spent on strategy, not rework
If you’re an HR Director, Head of OD or manager-of-managers stuck defending good people metrics while the business still feels slow and overloaded, this episode will help you shift the conversation from “motivation” to “design” and turn engagement spend into real speed and margin.