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Why handing over command feels like abandoning your people

My replacement arrives next month and I am terrified that everything will fall apart after I leave because I have been micromanaging everything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You micromanaged everything, and now you are terrified it will all fall apart once you leave.

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