Releasing control unlocks your team’s genius.

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The meeting was scheduled for nine. It ended at eleven-forty. Not because the agenda was long, but because every decision required a committee of one—you. You approved the font on the slide, the wording of an email to a vendor, the order of bullet points in a report that three qualified people had already reviewed. You left the room feeling productive. They left the room feeling smaller. Here’s the uncomfortable question: what did that cost you? Not in the moment. In the aggregate. Across every quarter, every project, every person who has learned to wait for your nod before they think. The cost isn’t just their frustration.