Leading with principles provides a consistent grounding for decisions, an underlying purpose for why you’re saying or doing something, and removes the leader vs. employee dynamic in principle-based decisions. It also gives the team a way to drive success without you present, holding these principles in the actions and decisions they drive forward. We all have leadership beliefs that ground who we are and why we do what we do, but putting them down on paper and intentionally communicating them to the team in a way where they can use, leverage and build on them makes them leadership principles.