Leaders are developed when leaders provide people with wisdom, supervision and authority to make decisions that fulfill a vision.
Followers are developed when leaders provide people with wisdom, supervision, but give no authority to make decisions that fulfill a vision.
Leaders create frustration and confusion when they call people leaders, but treat them as followers.
The measure of authority should be given to people commensurate to their character and maturity, so people should develop into leaders by faithfully and skillfully following.
Perhaps people around you are not mature enough to receive more authority or your organization's mission lacks the necessary clarity that would allow you to give authority to others (authority given in the absence of a clear mission creates a title, not a leader), but we need to be clear that unless authority is given to people we are only creating followers.
The failure to develop leaders who can be entrusted with authority signals the eventual death of any organization and creates a culture of "life-support" rather than one that is "life-giving".
