The Pros and Cons of Intrusting Young Leaders

The founder of chicfilet, truitt cathy, was just 19 years old when he entrusted him with the day-to-day running of a billion dollar company. Howard Hendrix: The best leaders have an intuit ive understanding of potential. Ad in many cases, i think it's certainly untapped, maybe latent, potential. When you give somebody responsibility, i think the leader who's doing that delegation or that empowerment has has a responsibility to coach that person and to try and help them learn and grow from the experience.