Exponential Impact: Building Leaders, Not Followers

The best leaders don’t build followers. They build other leaders.

That means your number one job as a leader is to grow the people who report to you. To expand their capacity and confidence so that leadership doesn’t stop with you.

Here’s where many leaders get it wrong. They hand off opportunities without walking beside the person in them. They delegate, but they don’t develop.

True leadership requires letting go of control and staying close enough to teach excellence. You can’t just say “figure it out” and walk away. You have to model what high-level execution looks like. You have to share your thinking, your standards, your expectations, and your process.

It’s uncomfortable at first. Especially when your name, your team, or your reputation is attached to the outcome. But if you invest the time to teach and coach through those moments, something powerful happens.

Your people grow. They start thinking at a higher level. They start leading.

And over time, you become known not just for what you personally accomplish, but for the leaders you raise up behind you. That’s exponential impact.

Because real leadership doesn’t stop at the top. It multiplies.