This is not a joke. You need to design yourself completely out of your old job. Set your sights lower than that and you'll delegate WAY less than you should.
But exhale: Delegating that much will take months.
Manage Your Boss
The biggest wild card when delegating is not your team. It's your boss. You don't need to be perfect. You just need to show you're in control.
Let her in on your plan. Who you'll be stretching and testing on your team and how you'll handle any breaks.
At Bridgewater, I trained 100s of leaders on how to diagnose problems to their root cause.
Give me 2 minutes, and I'll show you how to solve the real problems on your team:
The 5 Whys?
It's a diagnostic problem-solving technique popularized by Sakichi Toyoda, the Japanese industrialist & Toyota founder.
I honed my application of it at Bridgewater where it was the critical inflection point for improvement in Ray Dalio's 5-step process.
The Theory
Ask "Why?" questions to identify the underlying root cause of an issue. Then make changes to to address that cause. The deeper you dig, the more problems you prevent in the future.
Put simply: Don't treat the symptom. Cure the disease.