When leaders constantly rescue their teams, they're not helping, they're hiding a broken system. Real leadership means building people and processes that work without you, not staying involved to keep things from falling apart.
Now, let me address something that's kind of unspoken. Some leaders hear this, I know what you're thinking. If I step back, things might completely fall apart. Maybe for a minute. But if everything depends on your constant involvement, the system itself is already broken. It already has a problem. See, strong leadership isn't becoming more necessary. It's building people and systems that hold standards without constant rescue.
