#099 – Additive vs. Reductive Leadership | 52 Life Lessons – Lesson 45
Most leadership advice focuses on decisiveness, authority, and control the traits that look impressive from the outside. In episode 19 of the 52 Life Lesson series, host Tim makes the case for a different measure entirely: whether your leadership adds capacity to the people around you, or slowly reduces it.
Drawing on a candid story about a policy failure early in his own business, along with Paul O’Neill’s transformation of Alcoa and Amy Edmondson’s research on psychological safety, Tim shows why the most sustainable leadership holds high standards while building trust and why the true test of any leader isn’t how many people follow them in the room, but how well those people lead when they’re not.