In addition to the more um holistic and wholesome texts recommended here, also skim "Who's Got the Monkey" [1] The cargo-cult mimicry approach -- Just telling

In addition to the more um holistic and wholesome texts recommended here, also skim "Who's Got the Monkey" [1] The cargo-cult mimicry approach -- Just telling people to do something, then supporting them as they muddle through it -- can get you surprisingly far. "Support" includes pairing with them / being available for support / writing documentation if something's consistently unclear / good reviews / etc., basically resolving the delta between what they have and what you want. Also assigning and designing work that balances pedological value and blast raduis, which is case by case. E.g. junior Dev gets the design of a new system which is isolated, loosely coupled, and has no tight deadline; senior gets to debug a critical outage; senior gets a time critical important new system with many integrations; junior gets adding a new SQL backed api endpoint that looks like the others, etc. Soon enough your minions will have a better understanding than you, and you will then have the opposite problem of feeling incompetent and wondering how to regain your comprehensive understanding of what's going on. [1] https://internalmedicinefaculty.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Whos-Got-the-Monkey-HBR.pdf https://internalmedicinefaculty.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads...