Leadership requires knowing when expertise belongs to somebody else.
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Being in charge does not make you the most informed person on every question, and acting as though it does wastes the expertise you hired. Knowing where knowledge actually sits, and deferring to it visibly, makes better decisions and teaches everyone that competence outranks position.
Identify the areas where someone on your team knows more than you. Say so out loud and let their judgment carry. Deference of that kind reads as confidence rather than as a gap.
Whose judgment should you defer to more often than you do?
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