Give them a title, but never the authority to decide.
Show your power by constantly changing your mind or throwing tantrums in meetings.
Keep everyone guessing—poker face on, attention drawn.
Encourage questions, but make sure they always need to ask you.
Act like the smartest person in the room.
All of this? It’s ego at play. It puts you at the center of the universe, blind to how your own people struggle under the weight of your negativity.
We often mistake leadership for a source of power to feed our ego. But true leadership is the opposite—it is about serving others, so they become powerful enough to serve their people.
