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3A. Depending on the needs (and perhaps the history) of the inner circle group, this could take a long time to wait for them to burn out! In the meantime, the community suffers since other residents aren't involved or learning new skills. This is the "let's avoid any conflict approach."

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3B. Many successful community leaders understand that part of their job is to recruit others into leadership and share power. Supporting the idea of mentoring others can take the form of a buddy system, assigning a helper or even arranging for each of the inner circle to have a high school student intern. This can be a hard sell to the members of the inner circle who might not want to share their influence.

3C. In a work session setting, this can be very effective. The facilitator cannot only recruit interested members to "assist" the inner circle, but follow through with an action plan. In this way, for example, a date is set for a committee meeting or some assignment and report back is made. If the helpers are merely identified and it's left to the inner circle to follow through, then nothing will change.