The higher your leadership responsibility, the more expensive it becomes to spend your time on work someone else should own.

If you're still doing work someone else could own, no one is doing the work only you can do. Every hour you spend in the weeds is an hour you're not strengthening relationships, developing leaders, or shaping the decisions that move your mission forward. Leadership capacity doesn't grow because you work harder. It grows because you release what no longer requires your leadership and focus on what only you can do. Patti Montague reminds us that leading the mission requires more than managing the operation.