One of the most significant hindrances to effective leadership is EGO. Thomas Watson once said, "I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of how well the organization brings out the great energies and talents of its people." Sorry folks, unless you keep that ego under wraps, its never gonna happen. You'll alienate your people and you'll be rowing your own boat.
Management Guru and Professor Peter Drucker once stated in "New Realities":
The task of management is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. This is what organization is all about, and it is the reason that management is the critical determining factor.
This week, compile a list of your employees’ strengths and natural talents and do the following:
• Determine activities and responsibilities that will fully optimize employee strengths and talents
• Let go of tasks and responsibilities that will help them develop
• Determine what others in the group can do and want to do
• Build people's skills to take over by involving them in the work
Forget about you, focus on your people...That is the lost secret of leadership.
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