Dependency Machine

Watch what happens in most meetings.

Someone brings a problem. The boss solves it.
Everyone nods.
Meeting ends.

Problem → Answer = Dependency

We just trained them to bring more problems tomorrow.

Here's what nobody talks about.

Every answer you give makes your team weaker. Every solution you provide teaches them to wait for you.

Try the opposite.

Problem → Question = Capability

"What would you try?"
"What's really broken here?"
"Who else has solved this?"

Now watch.

They pause.
They think.
They leave with ideas, not instructions.

Six months later?

They're not bringing problems anymore. They're bringing decisions for review. Solutions for feedback. Ideas for scale.

You didn't become a better leader.

You built better leaders.

That's compound interest.