Letting Go

If you see yourself as indispensible, you might have trouble letting go Such as when you...

• can't bring yourself to retire.
• can't stop doing the job you were promoted out of.
• can't stop doing your subordinates' jobs for them.
• can't leave comfortable habits behind you.
• don't delegate without hovering over people.
• delegate extensively but only menial, safe tasks.
• fail to empower people, insisting that they get your approval for everything.

What are you trying to prove? And to whom?

• Letting go is hardest if you have only a vacuum to move into.
• So, get involved in the new before letting go of the old.
• If someone's taking your place, does it matter if they don't do things as you would?
• You want people to carry on your work as you would have done.
• Just like you want your children to do as well as you did.
• But you have to let them go their own way too.
• Too much of your identity wrapped up in what you have been doing?
• People can benefit from diversification just as much as companies do.
• Are you trapped in a vicious circle? You don't give anyone real authority, so they don't feel responsible which just confirms your opinion that no one else cares but you.
• Ironically, your attitude is the cause of their lack of interest.
• If you feel trapped, maybe you have trapped yourself?
• How can you extricate yourself? This means taking risks and living with mistakes in the short term while others shift up a gear.
  
• How badly do you want to move your nose away from the grindstone?