Great post by Kevin Merritt of Blist on the difference between "foxholes and potholders" in your organization.  I read this a couple days ago and can’t get it out of my mind.

"I like to think of a team’s passion for and support of their leader as being measurable on an imaginary scale from foxhole to potholder. Foxhole leaders are the ones who jumped in the foxhole and fought the battle right alongside the soldiers. Potholders are the ones who seem to appear just as the pie is ready to come out of the oven. A potholder uses his position of authority to demand the potholders, with which he removes the pie from the oven and gleefully presents it as though he baked it."

I think we’ve all experienced more potholders than we care to remember.  Great stuff Kevin.