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For me, there 3x2 sides to observe here :

1. Technical - Individual & Team aspect
2. Emotional - Individual & Team
3. Communicational - Individual & Team

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TIPS :

• You are in charge of each. But you don't OWN anything. Neither the team, neither teammates.
• You are the responsable if the project fail, not the team.
• The team is the responsable if the project success, not you.
• You have to decide (rarely as possible), when the team can't does it.

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That said, for each part, you & your team have to define :

• What is GOOD and what is WRONG. (Technically, Emotionally & Communicationally); (In public for the team ; In private for each member).
• How to reach the GOOD and how to avoid the WRONG.
• (The very difficult part) How to measure if you are going GOOD or going BAD.

One time by month, you have to iterate and do it again. As a ritual.

And don't forget, a good manager try to pull THE BEST of each teammate... even if it's not the BEST for your company. If each teammate is aware of this : (i.e your first task is to pull the best of them, with all the tools you have build together), you will build a something based on trust and respect. Not on fear and authority.

And of course, dude, don't forget to be yourself, to be human (with all goodness and badness, fears and joys, don't hide yourself behind the authority. Use the authority like a tool, not a mask).

Authority is like cooking, just having some good recipes and applying them with care.