Nine stages of how people operate at work, in order, where the critical job it removes from your manager's plate measures each one.

Read the nine stages again as a list of things your manager no longer has to do: check the work, hunt for the fat in it, coordinate it, track it, worry about future risk, own the outcome, map what happens downstream, decide what matters most, and set the goals in the first place. By the top there’s exactly one job left between the two of you, and it’s agreeing on where you’re both headed.