Sharing Responsibilities Makes a Great Leader!

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Great leadership comes with trust and with giving over responsibility to the people behind or under you. The more successful we want to be, the more we need to find a way to share some of that pressure and control with the people under us, and encourage them to do the same with those under them and so on.

The universe works in such a way that a bit of everything we have and we work on cannot be for us, enjoyed by us, benefitted by us, used by us. Trying to hold onto everything only makes things smaller.

Today, practice no attachment. No control. Let everybody else enjoy from the fruits. When you plant one seed, 100 people can enjoy the fruits, so don’t try to hold onto all of them. 

I personally have found this to be true not only in my professional life but my personal life as well. Although this can be tough at sometimes (because after all, nobody handles responsibility as well as I do), it is greatly beneficial, rewarding and leads to a higher level of productivity and even stronger leadership when we can share the load.

For the teams we lead, it creates a sense of ownership, a natural "buy in" and fosters an effective level of teamwork and collaboration. It nourishes a person's personal growth and helps them stretch their own comfort zones. A level of creativity, a better solution to a problem, a higher benefit to humanity may emerge that otherwise would not have manifested if the responsibility was hoarded. No matter how good we are at something, we cannot do everything effectively by ourselves. I believe it was J. Paul Getty who said, "I'd rather earn 1% off of 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts".

Many times we are reluctant to delegate certain tasks because we feel we will lose control. Control is an illusion. The more control we think we have over something, the less we really do. If we try to control every situation by ourselves, we are not viewed as leaders but rather "control freaks". In fact, our most influential leaders share great amounts of their responsibility with others and empower them to "step up". So go on. Take that area of responsibility that you have been reluctant to assign to someone and share it with them. Let them run with it and be there to support them. You will feel good about relinquishing control, other people will rise to the occasion to "make it happen", the results will be astounding and you will be viewed as a "real" leader. And most importantly, the universe will see this as a "true" act of sharing and sets the stage for more good things to come your way!

All the best,

Ron

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