Urgent often means habitually impatient.
Time pressure is the biggest obstacle to strategic delegation. There’s always a voice saying “I could do this faster.” That’s true short-term. But many assignments that seem time-critical actually have flexibility if you plan better. Strategic triage: handle genuinely critical work yourself, but question whether other tasks really can’t afford development time.
Take Action: For one “urgent” task, ask: “What’s the real deadline, and is there actually time for development if I structure this thoughtfully?”