The greatest test of leadership is an understanding of its powers.
Without that understanding, wielding it is detrimental to the followers, no matter how well-intentioned.
Three questions are always important: what can I do, what can I not do, and what has no rules?
What you can do needs to be done with discipline.
What you cannot do needs collaborators who can do it.
What has no rules needs to be delegated to trusted lieutenants.
The people around you know the answer to all three questions. They also know the collaborators and lieutenants that can help. That is why spending quality time listening and asking questions to unearth the answers to the three questions is one of the greatest leverages a leader can have.
– Osasu Oviawe