Are you me? I also miss doing the individual contributor stuff. But… I know the business. I know the team. I know the pain points, why the exist, and the organ

Are you me? I also miss doing the individual contributor stuff. But… I know the business. I know the team. I know the pain points, why the exist, and the organizational dynamics that allow them to persist. Now that I have moved from informal to formal leadership, I try to focus on: (1) adroitly executing the approvals and things where I could screw up the team by being slow (2) coaching individual team members to build on their strengths and mitigate their weaknesses (3) improving our corporate processes, tools and culture to systematically make it easier for the team to do the high value stuff we need from them (4) recruiting excellent people who bring new perspectives and experiences to broaden our horizons… ideally coachable people ready to participate enthusiastically in #2 (5) crafting a team strategy that guides individual team members to work that utilizes their skills while combining with their colleagues to deliver more than we could individually… all in line with the overall corporate direction and communicated in a way that is congruent with the current political winds. It is so. Much. Harder!