In my experience, that still leaves 99 other things that need handling on a daily basis. Usually external factors. As a manager, you should set yourself the go

In my experience, that still leaves 99 other things that need handling on a daily basis. Usually external factors. As a manager, you should set yourself the goal of making yourself superflous. Just don't ever have the illusion you'll achieve it. Human beings are way to messy and irrational for that, even the highly motivated and generally easy to manage ones. Oh, and BTW: highly motivated and talented people tend to be very hard to manage.