Hint: Don't try to do everything yourself
So you've hired some new team members. The next step is letting them do the work they signed up for.To Robichaux, cofounder and CEO of BetterUp, it's about deferring to people with more specialized skillsets.
"If you're a really good early-stage founder, you're probably a high performer who's a really talented individual contributor in some vector," he said."You may not be good at everything, but you're good at programming, you're good at product, you're good at sales. That only gets you so far." As your startup grows, he noted, you have to get comfortable managing a team that's more high-performing than you are individually.why delegation can be difficult . Successful people typically advance by proving over and over again how intelligent they are. They're inclined to do the same once they're in a leadership position — even though that can backfire.
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