He who pursues knowledge desires to accumulate more each day.

He who pursues the Tao desires to diminish more each day. He continues to decrease until attaining the realization of non-action — not acting, but leaving nothing undone.

Thus you lead by not interfering, since striving to lead will never be enough.

–Lao-tzu–

(from Tao Te Ching, verse 48, translation by Robert Brookes)