When you have the knack, delegating is a lovely thing that comes with the triple benefit of clearing your inbox, getting the work done in the most appropriate place, and nudging your people into taking responsibility and learning about getting things done. All good.

Still, there are some things that only you can do. The things you can’t or shouldn’t delegate and the things where your kind of added value in exactly the kind of value that needs to be added.

Some of these things are demanded by the daily cut and thrust, so you cut and you thrust immediately. Good for you.

But those discretional things, all of them yours, all important, none of them urgent.

You let them sit.

And sit some more.

Bad for you and bad for adding value.

Get on with it.

Skippy strategy: If only you can do it, get on with doing it.