Monday morning. You arrive at work and, before you even get to your coffee, you already have three messages, two calls, and a “quick question” from a passing manager in the hallway. Someone needs a decision, someone wants confirmation, someone has a client issue, and somewhere work has come to a halt. You promise yourself […]
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In today’s work culture, a common leadership mantra is spreading: “More autonomy, less control.” Organizations are actively looking for ways to support employee independence, decision-making, and flexibility. Leadership books, keynote speakers at conferences, and corporate training programs increasingly emphasize that more freedom leads to higher motivation and better performance. In parallel, traditional control mechanisms such
There are probably few people who haven’t run into that self-assured, slightly enigmatic line: “I’m an uncomfortable leader.” The intended message is that discomfort is the price of success—a leader pushes people out of their comfort zones, dusts off stale ideas, overturns old habits, and brings in wins that other approaches wouldn’t deliver. But when
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Leadership is easy 11/25 Start the exit process with the manager A department manager walks into their boss’s office and says, “We’ve got a problem… Mary has submitted her resignation. Looks like we didn’t raise her salary enough.” The standard playbook kicks in: schedule an exit interview, ask what we should do better next time,
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