This is not a democracy

As a leader, you can change the rules. You can do so unilaterally. It is so often your job to make the hard calls. No one writing this newsletter would tell you otherwise. What we can tell you, though, is that when you change the rules your people will notice. And at that moment, they will have some hard calls of their own to consider.

A leader can create whatever environment they want. Everyone will choose how they want to respond to that environment.