Could you increase the value of each hour you put in:

If your boss delegated more responsibility and assigned fewer tasks

If the work you do added up more often to something important to you, and not just to someone else.

If your own subordinates would assume more responsibility for day-to-day operating decisions--so
they would not reach your desk?

If you could deputize your subordinates to represent you — within clearly understood limits — at
meetings you now attend “in person”? And if your boss would similarly deputize you?

If you could rely on your subordinates for more of the decisions they now depend on you for? And if
your boss would rely on you for more of the decisions s/he now reserves for him- or herself?

If your subordinates were already on top of more of the problems you now get called about? And if
your boss were  less often called about problems you already have well in hand?

If your absence from your job for a month would delay only one aspect of your job — namely,
planning?

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