It's simple! Get a big enough team and you'll have to stop! ... I found it useful to reframe my goals as a manager. Now my primary goal is to set up systems a

It's simple! Get a big enough team and you'll have to stop! ... I found it useful to reframe my goals as a manager. Now my primary goal is to set up systems and people so that if I went away for a month, the team would keep functioning. With this goal, stepping in to prevent a single mistake is now counterproductive, because you have squashed a learning opportunity that would benefit your team long term. I now imagine that I have a budget of 5 or so interventions per week. I can use them to prevent a problem, or offer advice, or adjust a process. But I know that if I go over budget, I will either overwhelm my team and break down their autonomy, or I will be trying to do too much myself. Setting a goal of staying above the fray keeps me from succumbing to the anxiety that I must always be improving everything I can touch.