188: Sabina Nawaz, former Microsoft Executive | How Pressure, Not Power, Corrupts

As a leader, it’s important to use your “shut up” muscle. Don’t over participate, don’t over speak. Instead, let others speak first. For Sabina she tries to be the third, or later, to speak.

Don’t treat delegation like an on/off switch, but rather treat it like a dial which is calibrated to people’s readiness and ability.

Our behavior as leaders gets amplified on the way down, and peoples’ responses get muted on the way up. But by reacting to feedback kindly, and consistently asking for specific feedback, we can amplify the volume of the responses coming back to us