This is a short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video by Jayson Lowe discussing leadership choices during a team transition. Lowe shares an anecdote about an eight-week period where he chose to lead rather than micromanage, allowing teammates to reflect, grow, and contribute—resulting in an emotional moment at a boardroom table. The passage emphasizes avoiding micromanagement to enable team growth.
So if you imagine there's this small boardroom table in this massive space where you could literally fit dozens of people, and I sat down with my teammates, and I asked them to describe to me how they've been feeling now that we're about eight weeks into our journey. I could have micromanaged that whole process. So you can manage first and lead second, or you can lead first and let your team manage. And so what I shared with my teammates is that had I done that, had I micromanaged that whole transition, I would have robbed all of you of the opportunity to grow in the way that you've grown these past eight weeks. And there literally wasn't a dry eye at the boardroom table, because people, in that moment, they just were able to really reflect on the past eight weeks and every contribution that they had made.
