Allison MaslanCEO & Business Scaling Expert | WSJ Bestselling Author

You’re the reason your team won’t lead.

27 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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Allison Maslan says managers who always give direct answers kill creative thinking and trap teams in repeated questions. Instead of solving problems for employees, ask them what they'd do. It builds ownership and better solutions.

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A boss tells people what to do, and this stops them from thinking creatively. So the next time they come to you with a question, the reason that your team keeps asking you the same questions over and over and over and over and are driving you crazy is because you keep giving them the answers over and over and over. Where is the room for them to be creative? There is none. So instead, you want to say something like, "Well, what would you do in this situation? How would you handle it?" You own this now, this is yours, these are the results, go figure it out.