One of the biggest challenges executives face in making that critical transition from competent manager to inspired leader, is accepting that you can’t possibly get everything done yourself and that you will always be letting some people down.
Once you advance to a senior enough role, trying to keep up is like trying to stop an avalanche. No human being, no matter how smart, creative, and hard-working, can possibly keep up. Worse, if you throw yourself in front of the avalanche in the vain attempt to keep up, you will quickly be smothered and die.
Yet, that’s exactly what most executives do when they get promoted into roles that require true leadership.
