Perhaps a better way to phrase what the author was saying is that you need to tell your reports the things that you know more than them about (which incidentall

Perhaps a better way to phrase what the author was saying is that you need to tell your reports the things that you know more than them about (which incidentally usually is direction), but should avoid trying to prescribe things that it is their job to know more than you about (which incidentally covers most things about the codebase they see every day). "I'll run so far ahead of my team that I won't need their advice" - last spoken words of a new lead who died trying to do eight jobs faster than the people hired to do them. ;)