“You’ll Be Great at This” Never Asks If They Want It

TheAutisticLeader™️ Podcast · Oct 25, 2026 · 11m

Season 3 · Episode 5.

You hand someone a piece of work. You know what they can do with it, and you say something like “You’ll be great at this.” Did you ask how they feel about taking it on? “Learn to delegate” is good advice: you stop being the bottleneck every decision waits on, and your people grow by taking on real work. Most of us hear it as “hand off tasks,” and the handoff often never says which decisions are theirs.

In this episode I tell the story of a team I took over earlier in my career, where I judged only what each person could do and assumed every one of them wanted the work…