Relying on a mentor/boss/leader/daimyo is an important element of your set of decision-making options, but isn’t complete enough to be the only answer.
You really can’t fully delegate your goal-selection or strategic decisions, as the final responsibility for your impact always and irrevocably falls on you. Also, the difficulty in finding and choosing someone to work under, and the continual evaluation of whether they’re still making the right decisions, is _LARGER_ than the difficulty in directly deciding what to work on.
But you CAN get a lot of benefit by having a mentor or boss (or peer, for a lot of things) who you feel responsible to, and who can help you prioritize and stay focused in actually doing things, and then you only have to spot-check the higher-level alignment.
Relying on a mentor/boss/leader/daimyo is an important element of your set of decision-making options, but isn’t complete enough to be the only answer.
You really can’t fully delegate your goal-selection or strategic decisions, as the final responsibility for your impact always and irrevocably falls on you. Also, the difficulty in finding and choosing someone to work under, and the continual evaluation of whether they’re still making the right decisions, is _LARGER_ than the difficulty in directly deciding what to work on.
But you CAN get a lot of benefit by having a mentor or boss (or peer, for a lot of things) who you feel responsible to, and who can help you prioritize and stay focused in actually doing things, and then you only have to spot-check the higher-level alignment.