Take empowerment back

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I’ve read much about the perils of shifting from a command and control style of leadership over to something that is more dispersed, and therefore less “controlled”. I’ve experienced the shift first hand through being part of a large NZ Telco’s agile transformation.

One article I read recently talked about how agile was giving rise to “abdication leadership” — getting so far out of your team’s way, and empowering them so…