Quick Take | Tips to Help Executives and Leaders Grow
The Quick Take podcast provides concise and actionable tips to help executives and leaders, like you, tackle the thorny and complex challenges that affect us daily. By leveraging their experience and relationship with other global leaders, our hosts provide suggestions that are based on their deep experience as leaders and coaches but also pressure tested in boardrooms everywhere because they asked their friends….(almost). Hosted by James Capps and Susie Tomenchok. Episodes release weekly on Thursdays.
Quick Take | Tips to Help Executives and Leaders Grow
Can You Lead a Team Without Knowing Their Job?
Should leaders be able to do their team's work—or is that missing the point entirely? In this episode, Susie and James unpack a question that comes up more often than you'd think: what’s the role of expertise in leadership, and where does it get in the way?
From executives who feel pressure to know every detail, to newly promoted managers who struggle to let go of their old job, this conversation explores the emotional and practical tension of leading people whose work you can’t (and maybe shouldn’t) do. They also share real examples of what happens when expectations clash—and how trust, clarity, and curiosity can be even more powerful than hands-on skill.
Key Takeaways from This Episode:
- Why great leadership doesn’t require doing your team’s job.
- How to shift from execution to elevation when you’re promoted.
- What to do when your boss expects answers you don’t have (yet).
Join the Conversation:
Have you ever led a team doing work you’ve never done yourself? Or struggled to let go of work you once did? Tell us how you navigated the shift.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/capps/
