Practical Steps for Growing Leaders

• Reframe leadership as a one-off act that can be shown up as well as down. 
• Clearly differentiate leadership from management.
• Upgrade management so it is seen as a supportive, facilitative function.
• Train budding leaders to focus on content first, influencing skills second.
• Coach managers on how to foster bottom-up challenges.
• Reward teams and those who manage them for generating the most useable ideas.

Benefits

• Greater chance of winning the war of ideas through faster innovation
• More fully engaged knowledge workers.
• More widely distributed ownership for organizational direction.
• Less pressure on executives to be heroes, to monopolize ownership. 

Source: http://www.management issues.com/2010/5/17/opinion/developing-future-leaders.asp