Aug 11, 2015

Do you manage others or lead others?

If you are a leader or supervisor you have responsibility for others. The question is how we use that responsibility. Our approach will have significant implications for the culture we create in our organization or team as well as the engagement we get from our staff. 

Many leaders feel it is their duty to manage other people. By that they see themselves as managing what people do, how they do it...
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Apr 09, 2015

Just don't do it - benign neglect can be your friend

For many leaders there is the temptation to jump in and do what needs to be done when it appears to them that others are not going to take care of it. It is often a mistake and it trains people to passively allow the leader to do it for them. For a leader this is a non sustainable model because there will always be things that need to be done and often what we jump in and do takes us away from the...
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Apr 09, 2015

Just don't do it - benign neglect can be your friend

For many leaders there is the temptation to jump in and do what needs to be done when it appears to them that others are not going to take care of it. It is often a mistake and it trains people to passively allow the leader to do it for them. For a leader this is a non sustainable model because there will always be things that need to be done and often what we jump in and do takes us away from the...
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