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Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast, a conversation designed to help leaders go further faster.

On today's podcast, we'll look at the tricky relationship between responsibility and authority.

Andy, I'm excited about today's podcast because you often hear people complain about being given the responsibility for something but not the

authority to do anything about it.

But in a recent staff meeting, you address that tension.

Yeah, you know, in a healthy organization organization our responsibility will always exceed our authority.

In a healthy organization, actually everybody in the organization's responsibility should

exceed their authority, which sounds a bit like a contradiction but it's not because

and this isn't original with me we want employees to feel like owners not employees an

employee is going to stay in their lane when it comes to what's best for the

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