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# This Week - Aug 19, 2016
- URL: https://www.drewshannon.net/this-week-2016-08-19/
- Published: 2016-08-19T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T03:09:43.000Z
- Author: Drew Shannon
- Tags: link, margaret gould stewart, medium, this week, #import-blog-backlog-2026-09-13

> Listen, if there isn’t something going off the rails on your team, then I know you are micro-managing them. You are really good at what you do, and if you stay in the weeds on everything, you’ll keep things going perfectly, for a while. But eventually two things will happen. One, you will burn out. And two, you will eventually start to seriously piss off your team. So I better see some things going sideways, on a fairly regular basis.  
>  
> — [How a single conversation with my boss changed my view on delegation and failure (Margaret Gould Stewart for Medium)](https://shift.newco.co/how-a-single-conversation-with-my-boss-changed-my-view-on-delegation-and-failure-ae5376451c8d?ref=drewshannon.net#.aztg6dmd1)