Nick Bare

When you fly high, you fly high to focus on vision, strategy, team development, and long-term outcomes.

You step back to empower people.

Empowering people is one of the greatest things you can learn how to do.

I've learned that the hard way.

Because chances are, if you're in a leadership role, if you are a manager, you're a director, there's things you can do and you know how to do it.

You can run a business with a thousand people and you can jump into everyone's role and do all of those roles.

But what's going to happen is you're going to lose trust.

You're going to lose confidence because people don't feel empowered or trusted or competent.

Learning how to empower people with responsibility, truly trusting them, giving them the keys, giving them the reins to own something is

that goes a long way.

Empowerment, that's flying high.

When you dive deep and get in the details, you might have to do that from time to time when culture is drifting, as Craig Gershell says.

And sometimes a key leader needs support or to make major decisions.

And that's when they have to dive deep into the weeds, in the details.

You can also utilize strategic absence so that you don't become the bottleneck and allow space for your team to grow and take ownership.

This is something that I've incorporated the last couple of years, the last five or so years that I have found extremely beneficial and useful.

There have been times where I have strategically stepped away.

in terms of not the business, but not going to certain meetings or involved in certain projects and allowing teams and people to make decisions on their own, empowering them so that I don't become the bottleneck in certain decisions that have to be made, in certain plans that have to be established, in certain operational execution that needs done.

It allows space for your team to grow and for individuals to take ownership.

Some of, like I said, my greatest failures in building a business, being a founder, being a CEO, being a leader has been when I've stayed high for too long.