Excellent post (as always). One of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership in The Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes &amp; Barry Posner is Enable Others to Act. This practice requires investment in others, and one basic ingredient: TRUST. By enabling others to act, a leader willingly gives his/her power away, which makes the leader more powerful. That's one of the truths of leadership that many "leaders" haven't fully grasped -- the more power we give away, the more powerful we become.