If you are the boss it can feel like you have to know it all.
Of course, you've recruited or promoted people who are experts in their field. But perhaps you still feel that you should know a little more about everything than they do. Otherwise, what is your job?
If you can't add value by dropping in that "I thought of that earlier" or "Yes, I've heard of that" or "Well I just downloaded the updated version of that" then why do they need you?
Well, clearly this is all nonsense. You aren't the boss because you know more about everything. I can't tell you why you are the boss (only you know how you got there!) but I can tell you why you aren't there.
You aren't there to have all the answers.
You aren't there to be the smartest person in the room.
You aren't there to get it right more than anyone else.
The way I think of it is that you hold all the strings. Everyone else has a defined role but without a hub at the centre which ties everything together, everyone is just working in isolation.
In a sense it isn't very rewarding. But, as we put it at Taming Tigers - "The tools for Taming Tigers are all around you" and, if you don't mind me saying, you are the biggest tool in the team.
Today, let others be right, be clever, be the subject matter expert. All you need to do is hold the strings.
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