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Stop Being the Bottleneck: How Marketing Leaders Build High-Performing Teams
Growth Activated | The B2B Marketing Leadership Podcast · 2025-07-29 · 17 min
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#25 - If your team keeps waiting on you to move forward, the problem might not be them. Being the bottleneck is one of the most common — and most costly — leadership patterns for marketing leaders managing fast-moving teams. In this episode, Mandy Hornaday shares a leadership framework she returns to again and again: the four things every marketing team needs their leader to provide, and five practical ways to stop slowing your team down. This is part of the Growth Activated Summer Leadership Mini-Series — short, focused episodes on the leadership lessons that matter most right now.