If your team brings you every problem instead of solutions, you trained them to. Denying autonomy and shutting down ideas forces decisions through you, creating a bottleneck. Trusting your team to decide unleashes their brilliance and frees you.
If your team consistently brings you problems and not solutions, that's not something that's their fault. It's something that you have built. And I really mean that. You look at your business, these people that come to you all the time and ask you questions, and then you shut them down and you tell them, no, that's not the right solution. That's not going to work. Guess what? If you don't give them autonomy to make decisions, they will keep on coming back to you. You as the boss will always have to make decisions for them. And guess what? It handcuffs you to your business because no one can make a decision without you. That's a culture that you've created. I'm gonna challenge you to think about this a little bit for yourself. What culture are you creating? What autonomy do you give people? Do you trust your people fully? Because if you don't trust them, it normally means you don't trust yourself. And when you trust your team fully and give them autonomy to make decisions, your business will skyrocket. You'll spend more time on the beach, more time having fun, and less time trying to figure out solutions for people that are a lot smarter than you are, but you don't give them autonomy to use their brilliance.
