One organizational area that tends to tie a company in knots is the way leaders give assignments. Most managers struggle to find the right balance between being too tough or too easy — and when they overcompensate either way it can cause unintentional complexity.
Deadly Sins of Giving Assignments
One organizational area that tends to tie a company in knots is the way leaders give assignments. Most managers struggle to find the right balance between being too tough or too easy — and when they overcompensate either way it can cause unintentional complexity. A number of years ago my colleague Robert Schaffer identified the […]
April 12, 2011
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