[kafkaesq]

He just means "on balance, your success lies in your team's hands".

Yes, there's a lot of things a manager can do to screw the project up. But ultimately, it's the team that's actually doing the work. And ultimately, your job is not to "do the heavy lifting", or make all the key decisions, or figure everything out. They already know what to do. Your job is to enable them to succeed.