Craig Groeschel

It's kind of like you're

teenagers, you send your 16 year old off to drive and you're going like, I hope they don't hit a tree and they do hit a curb, you know, and then they rear in somebody.

Well, that's part of them learning to drive is getting bumped up a little bit.

And so there are times when you're going to like intentionally keep your hands off, stay above it to let a leader

make some mistakes that aren't mission critical, but in order to get better.

And the key is that you're staying above on purpose.

It's not that you don't care, it's not that you don't know, it's that you're keeping altitude for a reason.

And you wanna stay above it when your involvement would complicate it or slow it or keep someone from growing.

Then the question is, when do you get involved?

And I'll give you four times you wanna get involved.

Very simple, very direct.

When culture is drifting,

when a key leader is struggling, when there's a decision that'll shape the future, and when something's stuck and needs your authority to move.

If culture's drifting, you're in trouble because culture shapes everything.

So you gotta get in there immediately and fix it.

Culture is a reflection of what you allow, what you expect, and fix it.

If a key leader is struggling,

that's on you to fix.

If there's a big decision that's going to shape your future, it's kind of mission critical, you better be involved in that all day long.

Do not sit back and trust other people to make one of the top two or three decisions of the year.