Digitalian,
Thanks for the comment.
I take your point that there has to be vision and leadership setting goals and framing the day to ay work with a big picture.
However, there are plenty of opportunities for the project leader to step back and give the wheel to others for a while.
One of the benefits is immediate - an empowered team who will be more proacive and take more ownership of the problems at hand.
One of the other benefits is more long term - career building for the team members and talent building for the employer.
Thanks again for reading.