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Your Strength Is Their Ceiling: When Good Leaders Hold Their People Back l BLx l Ep. 034

The Backbone Leader Exchange··17 April 2026·11 min

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The best NCO in the room might be the worst thing that ever happened to their soldiers. Not because they do not care. Because they cannot stop doing. The section looks sharp on the surface. Then the leader goes on leave and the whole thing falls apart. SGT Cashe and SSG Jones confront the competence trap: why the Army promoted you for being excellent, but the job changed the moment you pinned on. Letting go of the work is not lowering the standard. It is raising it. This week: Name the one thing you are still doing that a subordinate should own. Hand it over by Friday. Because of you, our Army is better!