[sz4kerto]

This is not about time management at all. Many new execs mess this up -- it's not that you need to get more organized (or mostly not); you need to build a system that doesn't require you to intervene all the time.

What this requires is

- people you can trust

- you actually trusting them

- being able to identify relatively self-contained tasks you can delegate

- being able to accept that you'll get less competent in things you're delegating

Ofc. there's much more to this, there are plenty of books, courses, schools about leadership and management, but I think the core issue is that you should concentrate of make yourself not required.

[emptybits]

I think this is an excellent way to look at the situation.

From a psychological POV (e.g. ego & identity), this aspect was particularly significant to me as I moved from developer to manager to CTO and then CIO:

> - being able to accept that you'll get less competent in things you're delegating