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You might not notice the change day by day, but one day you'll look back and realize you're not the same leader you were a year ago—and that's when you know self-reflection has done its job.

You might be thinking right now about how much more your team could achieve if only they stopped seeing each other as competition. How much innovation is lost when people hoard their ideas, fearing someone else might get the credit? How many problems go unresolved because everyone thinks it's someone else's responsibility?

Leadership is often mischaracterized as a 'top-down' endeavor, a one-way flow from the decision-maker to the team. In that cramped vision, there’s no room for creative incubation, no space for team members to fully flourish. What if leadership, especially in complex, fast-paced environments, looked more like parenting in the David Deutsch sense of the term? What if leadership was about granting space, while also nurturing, to let ideas bloom and characters develop?

Expectations just keep getting higher and higher. You're always asked for more more more.

Imagine for a moment that you're an invisible presence at the office. You could walk through the walls and witness firsthand the impact of your leadership on your team. You could read their thoughts, feel their emotions. What would you never want to see? What would you never want them to feel?