Ric Marks | Load-Bearing Leadership

Leadership pressure rarely starts with the leader alone.

It builds when decision-making, judgement, escalation and responsibility become concentrated in too few people.

This channel explores the organisational conditions behind leadership load — including decision drag, responsibility without matching authority, escalation dependency and key-person risk.

Ric Marks is the founder of Ultimate Marks and creator of the Load-Bearing Leadership approach. Drawing on more than 15 years across Federal Government, Defence, technology and complex service environments, he examines why capable organisations become overly dependent on particular senior people — and what can be done about it.

Topics include:

Load-Bearing Leadership
decision drag and decision concentration
responsibility and authority
escalation dependency
organisational dependency
executive leadership and operational resilience

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