The need to motivate others is a sign!

 

The moment you feel the need to motivate someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake or you’ve put the right person is in the wrong role. The’ right’ people don’t need to be motivated. Challenged, lead, taught, acknowledged – yes. But not motivated. The right people in the right job show up motivated. The only thing you need to do as a manager / boss is not demotivate them with your own behaviours; micro managing, focussing on failure and ‘weaknesses’ or competing against them.

As far as your line reports go, your job is to encouarge them to put you out of a job by becomming better than you.  (You can then move on to something bigger and bolder for yourself.)  What a fabulous gift to them and you.