Telling Women Leaders to 'Just Delegate' Misses the Point
You've been promoted to a new leadership level with greater scope and responsibility than ever before, including a larger team and expectations to set the vision and strategy. Within months, your boss says, "You need to delegate more. Stop doing all the technical work yourself."
You agree and really want to delegate more. But six months later, you're working most nights and weekends, still doing work from your old role while also doing your new leadership work.
You've become the bottleneck for all initiatives. Your team has become........
