I’ve been reading the Slow Leadership blog, which I’ve found to be helpful to keep thinking about how to do my job better…and sanely. The blogger, Carmine Coyote, has been running a survey about readers’ needs for slow leadership. I dutifully filled it out.
I was not prepared for the type of responses he got. Here’s one sample:
“Problems are delegated, not tasks. There is a culture that says ‘If you can’t meet the deadline it must be because you’re not trying hard enough’, rather than ‘You’re not meeting the deadline. Is there a problem? Can we help?’”
He finishes the post of comments from the survey with this thought: “Eventually, the pressures reach those who can delegate no further.” Is that any way to run a business or be a leader? That’s insane!
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