
The Owner's Room: When Structure Becomes Control
In this Owner’s Room episode of Culture Focused Practice, Dr. Tara Vossenkemper explores the messy intersection of structure, control, anxiety, and leadership in a growing therapy practice.
Tara loves clear ownership, visible metrics, defined roles, and reliable workflows. But she also acknowledges that a desire for clarity can cross into excessive reporting, rigid processes, and rules created to relieve a leader’s anxiety rather than meet the needs of the business.
She distinguishes structure from control:
Structure provides flexible scaffolding: It defines the outcome and protects what…
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