This only works if you're hiring strictly senior individuals. If you yourself are senior, and you need to staff a team with some more junior individuals so you

This only works if you're hiring strictly senior individuals. If you yourself are senior, and you need to staff a team with some more junior individuals so you can build your bench strength, odds are you won't be finding many junior/entry-level people better than you. But I fully agree with the rest of it. Too many times managers view themselves as "the deciders" vs. supporting their teams and empowering smart people to make their own decisions. At a certain point once someone is ramped-up, you need to let them sink or swim on their own. If they screw up, you address it, but you need to give them a chance to do that on their own.