Marc Haine on why leaders don't delegate: they're too busy, they think no one else will do it right, they don't empower their team, and they don't trust them. The real cost is making yourself indispensable instead of building leaders.
And in my opinion, there are 4 reasons why some leaders just fail to delegate. One is that they're too busy. And I mean, as my family will attest to, in my case, I used to work really, really long hours. I felt that the place would fall apart if I wasn't there doing the work. And so, I made myself absolutely indispensable. I figured it was faster to do it myself when I was coming up and coming in as a leader. And I just figured nobody would do it as well as I could. But then my team themselves weren't motivated. They were just doing the basic day-to-day stuff. And the funny thing was, as much as I was working like really crazy hours, they were working their 9 to 5. They were working their regular shift. They were working what they had to do because ultimately, I wasn't empowering them to do more. And that comes down to the second reason why people don't delegate. And that is that trust issue. You know, when you have to delegate something, it means you have to take your foot off the brake and you've got to let people move forward.
