Handing someone a task isn't the same as handing them the keys. Most delegation fails not because people can't handle ownership, but because nobody actually transferred it — the win was never defined, the guardrails were never named, and the leader disappeared until the deadline. DELEGATE gives you eight elements for a real handoff, the kind that builds capability instead of just offloading work. Because a vehicle with one driver isn't a system. It's a dependency with a title.