You know the moment.
You glance at the task on your to-do list and think, “It’ll be faster if I just do it myself.”
You don’t need to explain it to anyone. You won’t have to answer questions. No extra meetings, no training. Just get it done, and move on.
And while you’re not wrong—it will get done faster if you do it—that choice comes with a hidden cost.
Every time you choose to do it yourself, you make an invisible trade:
You trade growth for control. You trade team development for short-term efficiency. You trade your highest contribution for tasks someone else could have owned and grown through.
It doesn’t feel like a big deal. But over time, it bottlenecks your team and burns you out. That’s the quiet cost of poor delegation.
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