If I Build a Strong Team, Am I Abdicating Power or Control?
When you build a sense of teamwork, you are not abdicating power or control. While teamwork works best in a climate of participation or, better yet, shared leadership (think "empowerment), it isn’t mandatory. This is a decision that you make as team leader, and this is a role that you can retain or share, as you wish. The key is making sure that employees understand the ground rules by which teamwork is practiced.
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Some management thinkers might disagree with the paragraph above. They would argue that the more control a person has in an organization, the more power that person will have to relinquish to run an effective team. For instance, as a manager, relinquishing control, they would argue, means deliberately holding back on your point of view and allowing your team’s members to spend time searching for the right answer, rather than providing it for them. This is true only if you want that kind of relationship with your team.