Most managers want their team members to be more proactive when it comes to making decisions. IT Team leaders at any level can use a 'Tree Decision Rights' model to identify different types of decisions and then work with their team members to empower them to take on more decision-making responsibly.
Do you ever wish that your IT staff communicated more effectively? With key stake holders? With each other? And with you?
Have you ever given a team member an assignment and told him or her to come see you if they needed any help with it... then been surprised a few days or weeks later, when they were in trouble but hadn't come to you for that help?
The idea that employees who quit their jobs are more likely to be running away from their managers than they are to be bailing out on their companies, was first popularized by two researchers from The Gallup Organization in 1999.
The IT industry prides itself on using structured methodologies to dramatically improve process quality and efficiency--even in regards creative processes that seem not to lend themselves to such structured approaches.
Having managed and rescued dozens of projects, and helped others do so, I've noted that there is always one critical success factor (CSF) that has either been effectively addressed or missed/messed up.