When I made the switch to Engineer to Management, the hardest but most useful skill I learned was to let people fail. This may sound odd, but as a manager your

When I made the switch to Engineer to Management, the hardest but most useful skill I learned was to let people fail. This may sound odd, but as a manager your job isn't "To Do", its "To Delegate(manage)". Everyone fails at some point, and remember that your a manager, you shouldn't be coding, spinning up servers, or anything else like that. Your job is to hire competent people that work well together and with you. When I talk with our techs about their tasks and work loads, ALWAYS say what do you need from me. I make it clear that I expect the deliverable to be done right and on time. It is their responsibility to speak out and say I am having problems with X, or I am unable to complete Y because of Z. A managers job is to get your employee's the resources they need, or to find a suitable alternative if that's not possible. My job is NOT to jump in the trenches and start coding unless its to prevent the companies certain demise or to save my employee's sanity during an unexpected surge of work. This was my hardest challenge when a manager, and in hind sight, what I wish past managers would have known. My best manager knew this and is where I learned this from.