The Leadership Dilemma: Delegating vs. Protecting Your Team
Your team is busy—dealing with deadlines, new projects, and endless demands. At times, they seem stressed, and they may even admit to it. Yet as a leader, you still need to delegate more to focus on higher priorities. That’s where the dilemma lies. You empathize with their workload—you’ve been there yourself. But the challenge for leaders is not to slip into sympathy. Unless people are stretched and tested, we never truly know their capacity. I’m living this in real time with a client, a high-performing executive at a large company. Like her team, she is extremely busy. When I suggested delegating more, her immediate response was: “I can’t give them more—they’re already overloaded.” My reply was simple: “How do you know for [...]