A short talk by Cameron Herold arguing that a leader’s primary job is to grow people — their skills, confidence, and connections — so teams can deliver faster and more with fewer resources. He emphasizes continuous delegation, intentionally developing successors, and flipping the org chart into an inverted-pyramid where leaders exist to support frontline staff and customers.
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The leader's core job is to grow people. The more that we can grow the skills and the confidence and the connections of our people, the more that they can take on, the more that they can deliver. The easier their job is going to be. The faster the results are going to be. The more results we can get from less people, faster. You know, our job is to grow them, and it's to get results through them. When a leader realizes that their to do list does not have their name on it, it's just a list of stuff that needs to get done, the starting point should be, who can I delegate everything to? And if you have something on your list that go, I have nobody, I can delegate this to pick someone and then grow their skills, grow their confidence, and grow their connections so they can do that thing but keep delegating more and keep the focus on growing people. And I think when leaders do that, when you kind of flip the org chart upside down, like an inverted pyramid, where the leaders at the bottom supporting the VPs who are supporting the managers, who are supporting the frontline, who are supporting the customers, you end up building an incredible organization that way.