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How to Delegate Effectively: 5 Steps to Let Go of Control and Start Doing More
Learn to scale yourself while also scaling for impact

If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself, right?
The perfectionist in you likes to be in control and is good at finding excuses:
The outcome won’t be as good.
It will take me longer to assign and explain than to do it myself.
I don’t have anyone with the right skills.
No one in the team wants to do it anyway.
There’s this itch to jump and solve every problem yourself.
- Got a presentation — no one can do it better than me.
- Got a production issue — it ain’t getting fixed if I am not involved.
- Got a client call — I need to seal this deal.
- Got a critical feature release — I better do it myself.
The risk of not getting it right is way too high.
“Picture this. I am your supervisor, and I walk over to you with pencil in hand and tell you to take it. You reach for the pencil, but I won’t let go. So I say, ‘What…