Treat power as stewardship
Use role clarity as a servant-leadership practice that distributes power without abandoning accountability.
The move: serve people by making authority clear enough to use. Hidden power creates hidden work When roles are vague, the team does not become empowered. It becomes dependent on informal influence, side channels, and whoever is willing to chase the decision. Stewardship makes power legible A servant leader names the decision owner, the contributors, the required input, and the audience for updates. That protects people from guessing and gives them a clean way to contribute. Clarity is not control The point is not to centralize every call. The point is to match decision rights to the work. Sometimes the…
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