You Don't Have to Give Up Control

Leaders are also people and when they fear the loss of control because they don't know that they're going to get lots more in return, then you tend to hold on to it. You're not losing control. You're giving control to the people that work with you. That's the concept from David Markey's book on leadership. And I really like that notion because that's in essence what we do as agile leaders, you give control to other people so control is not lost. Now, having that actually gives you as a leader much more control because now everybody's thinking about making the right decisions, not just you. So the net result of this is way better decisions being taken