Glimmerick

It seems like it has been a couple decades since I have wrote anything… you may be right. However, I am getting back on the horse and starting a new book. Its entitled Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership. It stresses the importance of recognizing your most important asset, people. Building a winning team can take some work, but once correctly done, the results can be invaluable.

The first tip I would like to go over is simply this:

Work Smarter, not harder.

An illustration the book uses is related to orginization within a company. Most people assume a pyramid, with the CEO on top with hourly workers on the bottom, often leaving the top managers and CEO to do a large portion of the work. This is especially true for smaller companies. When someone generally thinks of a CEO, one of two things pops into your head. There is the “never does anything” CEO that sits back and waits for someone to slip up, or often times in smaller businesses, there are the CEO’s that think that it is their job to do all the work. A good CEO or boss should be neither. The One Minute Manager (OMM) encourages CEO’s and bosses to instead “roll up their sleeves” and provide their employees with the proper tools and training they need to succeed. They win, you win.

If you have ever worked somewhere, it becomes obvious that there are employees that don’t really need much help to be productive, while others seem to need a cattle prod. Identifying and helping  those that need your help, and not interfering with those that don’t, can be beneficial in many scenarios.

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