Critical for a leader’s effectiveness is the ability to facilitate others’ thinking rather than telling and controlling.
When leaders facilitate others’ thinking they enable the personal growth of others and engender feelings of significance in these same people. However many leaders find this difficult to do because it requires the subordination of their own ego with the simultaneous release of the need to demonstrate their technical mastery.
Self worth is to often too attached to these things and therefore leaders forfeit the opportunity to untap the potential of the people working with them.
