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The art of letting go

You can't control everything.

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Dec 6, 2022

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Coming in strong this morning with the dramatics with the subject of this lesson.

Delegation is one of the areas I see rising EMs (i.e. those who moved from IC to EM) struggle with the most, especially early on in their career as an EM and if they moved up in the ranks of their original team. There are two things I see happen:

  • You don’t delegate enough (e.g. “I can just get this done myself much faster”), or

  • You try to delegate too much.

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