What does it mean to be promoted to your level of incompetence?

As you go up in responsibility, you have less and less direct control over the people who are doing the real work; however, it is not a continuum. I see the stages below to where be the key barriers to leadership growth and organizational growth exist. In each case the barrier is trust. To succeed at each level, you must let go of something and accept a dramatically different view of your illusion of control.

A clarification to an answer I provided in a discussion in the LinkedIn group Linked 2 Leadership. Tom Hawes asked the question and for the clarification. Thanks to Tom for an interesting question.