Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first.

So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.

Build a company that idiots could run because eventually they will.

Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate.

The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.

It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug.

Delegate completely. Let people make mistakes and learn.