Giving autonomy to your team WILL increase your fail rate. That's not a bug — it's the trade-off.

Giving autonomy to your team WILL increase your fail rate. That's not a bug — it's the trade-off. When your goal is alignment, not control, you have to ask yourself three things: How do I measure a higher failure rate? How do I manage it? And how do I actually accept it? Because if you're leading for alignment, some failures aren't just okay — they're the price of people owning their work. That's the real cost of trust. If this hits different, subscribe for more leadership truths nobody talks about.