Brilliant model for leadership.

Another problem I've encountered is when the Lead or the Lead of Leads refuses to stop doing the bulk of the hands on work either because they always want to be busy , they don't trust anyone, or because the organization can't take that leap of faith to say, "this great producer needs to let go and lead or we'll never grow."

It's a critical point in your model. In my experience, delegation is one of the hardest skills to master and where many Leads and Leads of Leads fall down. One of my colleagues recently told me, "delegation is backing off and trusting" which is really difficult.

I've experienced it done well and poorly first-hand, I've done it poorly myself and it creates a lot of problems.

Thanks for the insight!