Have everyone come to you for ideas and decisions.

Invite people up the ladder of control with competence and clarity. Ask people the question "how confident are you that you can do this?" or "have you done this before?"

By telling people what to do you create dependency, not capability. By telling people what to do you start to own their job. It should only be reserved for emergency situations on critical decisions or with low competence people.

Listen to your people as if they're right. Get into their heads as a partner.

You have to be authentic and vulnerable as a leader.

He goes into how he leaned back, but they had to lean into him. Ownership comes with responsibility of leaning in.

He doesn't believe in the phase "empowerment" but that a culture is made up of language that drives ownership or doesn't.

This dispels the myth that David showed up on the submarine with some grand master plan. He's a hard working, smart guy, who applies system thinking.

don't express your opinion first, the boss's view will shape everyone else's.

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