The best leaders make people stronger, not more dependent.

It is easy to be needed and much harder to make yourself less necessary. Dependence looks like effectiveness in the short term, because everything routes through you and everything moves. Strength in others is slower to build and is the only version that survives your absence.

Notice the decisions that keep coming back to you. Instead of answering, ask what the person thinks and why, then let them act on it. Being indispensable is usually a sign that something has not been built properly.