Why does every crisis still land on my desk?

You can run the machine. People trust you with it. That is not the problem — it is the proof you worked for. The problem is that you have become the place every spark lands, because you never built anywhere else for it to go. Ask yourself honestly: how many of today's crises needed you specifically, and how many needed only someone willing to decide? Most emergencies are not emergencies. They are decisions other people did not want to make, so they handed them to you, and you took them. This is not about working harder or moving faster. It is about choosing, deliberately, what only you can do — and refusing the rest, even when refusing feels like failure.