The Right Altitude Field Guide to Delegation

Every leader knows they should delegate more. Then the day fills up with work they could hand off, decisions their team could make, and problems that only reach them because they trained everyone to bring them. The calendar says senior leader. The actual hours say something else. This is a field guide for letting go without losing control. Five practices you can work through before your next handoff: the Altitude Audit that shows how much of your week sits below your level, the Dentist Trap that explains why you keep getting pulled back in, the 70% Rule that tells you when a thing is good enough to ship in someone else's hands, the difference between delegation and abdication so you hand over the authority and not just the task, and Building the Bench so the operation runs when you step away. Start with the diagnostic to find where you hold on too tight, then go straight to the practice that loosens it. Every practice comes with coaching questions and a 48-hour experiment. Outcomes, not steps. 70% and shipped.