There are three kinds of activities that we can do as leaders.
Exploit: Engage best practises when you want to make the most of what is well know. You look to optimising for efficiencies.
Explore: Identify next practises when you want to understand what works and what doesn’t. The end goal of all activities in this area is to end up in the exploit zone. You look to optimising for effectiveness.
Empower: This is the high-leverage activity for a leader. When we develop the judgement needed to know the right time to delegate the power of this decision (to exploit or explore) to someone we lead by empowering them, we become leaders worth following.
