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Here's how to develop people into their own leaders

28 Mar 2024 · 0 min

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Speaker describes a practical leadership-development approach: empower team members by making them 'the CEO' of a specific function (e.g., 'CEO of graphic design'), assigning full ownership and responsibility so the manager avoids micromanaging across ~12–13 people. The approach emphasizes delegation, role ownership, and shifting accountability to individuals.

You develop them into their own leader. To where you say, hey, you are the CEO of graphic design. That's it. You're in charge of it. It's your duty. So anything related, your. Your job. And then what you do is you, like, because, like, we have like 12 or 12 to 13 people in our company right now, right? So, like, I can't do that. Like, assign a task, have them do it, check to see if it gets done. Across 13 people, I would have no life, right? I.