That said, it’s natural for leaders to want to delegate upward. It’s a sanity check on the decisions, but for hard decisions, it’s usually easier to ask your boss to make the call. But doing so is escaping accountability, which isn’t good for building a culture of empowered leaders. As a leader, I tend to ask more questions than answer them. My goal is to make the single-threaded leaders accountable, but help them answer their own questions. I’m not perfect, and too often I fall for the trap of making the call when asked, but my goal is to help them clarify their own decision-making instead.
