VOL 10 - BREAKING POINT by Lawrence M. Schneider

Your company has a continuity plan for technology, facilities, and data. But what happens if the one person carrying the hardest decisions, customer relationships, institutional 
memory, and emotional weight can no longer keep absorbing more?
 
That person may be you.
 
Breaking Point examines the moment founder strain stops being a private burden and becomes an operating risk for the entire company.
 
The danger rarely begins with a dramatic collapse. It begins with smaller changes that look survivable: decisions take longer or become unusually abrupt; ordinary problems feel 
heavier than they should; difficult conversations keep moving to next week; managers soften bad news because they do not want to add pressure; customers bypass the team and 
call the founder; family time remains occupied by work long after the laptop closes.
 
The business may still be producing. Revenue may still arrive. Meetings may still happen. From the outside, the founder still appears committed and capable.
 
Inside, the company is quietly using one person's remaining capacity as its emergency reserve.
 
Lawrence M. Schneider examines the business mechanisms behind that condition:
 
• How operating, cognitive, emotional, identity, and continuity load accumulate together.
• Why a founder can leave the office and still receive no real recovery.
• How competence becomes a human single point of failure.