A short YouTube leadership talk by Donald Burns advising managers to empower and trust their teams. Burns argues that hoarding control and preventing mistakes creates dependent, stagnant workers who remain mediocre; he emphasizes that trust and permission to make mistakes are essential for growth and stronger relationships.
You don't trust your team, and you refuse to give up control. That's why you do most of the work. You've turned your team into a bunch of dependent workers who are afraid of their shadows because you didn't train them or allowed them to make mistakes. When you have a team that's not empowered to make mistakes, not empowered to learn, you have a crew that hovers at mediocrity. They never get better. They never search for growth. You're just stuck with them in a perpetual Groundhog Day, living the same day over and over again. Stop treating your team like they're incompetent. They're not. Remember, without trust, relationships die. Without mistakes, there is no growth.
If your restaurant only works because you work 80 hours a week, it doesn't work.
