as a person in a leadership position what should I do if I consistently
notice one of my guys motivating the team and leading them successfully
during project submissions better than I can the completion of the mission being
the top priority would it be better for me to back down and let my counterpart
lead which will benefit the company and its employees and how will I regain my
status among them I think this is actually pretty straightforward if
you've got someone that's doing a better job leading then let him lead let alieve
give him some room learn from him support them the best you can and the
best way you can most likely support them is by getting out of the way and
letting them do what they're doing and then get them the support that they need
and what this is going to give you the benefit of this now you can instead of
looking down and in and managing your team you can look up and out and forward
and see what is going on in the future and prep the battlefield and in the
future or prep the next market area or look for recruit you know you can move
you can lead you can actually lead and let that you know Young Buck handle the
things that are going on tactfully on the battlefield right now I used to say
this to the to the SEAL leadership I used to say hey the enlisted SEAL
leaders handle the problem that is in their face right now the tactical
problem that's in their face right now the officer should be looking at what
we're gonna do next hmm that's kind of a neat really simple it's not always like
that but that's a real good starting point and so in this position I'd be
like oh I got a young buck that's coming up and leading well cool that's gonna
allow me allow me to look up and out and be ready to move forward and plan the
next move now as far as regaining your status as a leader you won't really need
to because if you do this properly you'll be seen as a leader who is
confident enough to let a subordinate leaders step up and lead while I go and
move forward the you'd have to regain if you were there shutting this person down
and trying to micromanage and doing a worse job than everyone on the
team knows that guy could do a good job mm-hmm let him do it
yes that's about confidence really it's about like do you have are you confident
and are you secure in your leadership oh yeah to step aside
yes no problem we love it hey yo you really good at this cool you
step in there and do it I can Oh probable that will you get the
occasional person that's like oh look Jose Jose letting that guy do it cuz he
doesn't know what he's doing occasionally yeah 1 out of 20 people
will be that big mr. negative that's fine yeah you know then then what's cool
is when you're on the outside guess what you are when you're when you let someone
else put on the team guess what you have guess what you have do test yes Charles
yes and we have detachment and so now you're gonna be able to see things that
even that leader that's better than you can't see and then when you come in
you're gonna look like the tactical genius because you point something out
but they didn't notice because they were in the firefight technical genius here's
the way it works things good yeah that's hard to do that man with something doing
better than you you know oh man yeah that's right I mean the oh I say Tate
what takes confidence this is it's such a good example of keeping your ego in
check because what you just said everything feels and when you feel that
that's when you go oh cool I'm my egos getting out of control it's fine you
just put it in check and let this person to lead and I'll move you know check out
what we're gonna do next I'll look ahead on the battlefield I'm
trying to think like oh you said there occasionally there will be a guy would
be like oh he doesn't know he's doing so he's let him do I I've been in that
situation or my boss actually I've been the guy who my supervisor like said oh
yeah you like you to handle you take this you know you got this one kind of
thing and I'm like yeah you're doing it cuz you don't know you're doing kind of
thing and everyone knew that and so I've been in that situation where I'm looking
at them but now think about this think about if instead of him just
saying hey you go on run this thing I think everybody said hey echo you're
really good at this you're better than I am yeah you step up
run this I'm gonna be over here looking where we're on next what would you think
that yeah so he's actually said that before like a couple times and it every
single time it made me feel way better like yeah even though I mean of course
the truth will set you free yeah so I feel like if I was one of the
domani you know one of the team guys on the teams thinking that I think I
wouldn't think that if yeah if he did that kind of stuff or if or if as long
as he didn't act like this is the cure to heart of leadership the see account
there's all counter-intuitive you think that if you hide it yeah yeah it's
better mm-hm and the better thing to do is be like hey echo is really good at
this he's better than I am and he's gonna step up and run this thing and
people are like oh wow chuckles super confident is leadership they don't they
don't verbalize in their head that right that's just the feeling like ya know
chocolates doesn't care who's running this thank you yeah we're good it's good
man yeah so watch out for that just keep your ego in check yes sir at
all times