You Need Two Leadership Gears

By Lindy GreerFrancesca GinoRobert I. Sutton
Harvard Business Review
March2023 Vol. 101 Issue 2 Pages 76–85.

The debate about the best way to lead has been raging for years: Should you empower your people and get out of their way, or take charge and push them to do great work? The answer, say the authors, is to do both. Their research shows that effective leaders routinely shift between these two seemingly opposing modes — and build teams whose members are good at switching back and forth too.