RULE 19

Get the best resources for your team

If your team is a tool you use to get greater glory for little ol’ you, then the resources your team uses are the tools it needs to carry it – and thus you – onward and forward. Too many managers think that by cutting their team’s resources they are earning some sort of brownie points to be stored up – and used in what? Heaven? I don’t think so. You have to get the best resources for your team. By depriving the team you are depriving it also of the chance to shine, to propel you to greater glory.

I know of a lot of managers who say, ‘Oh, they can manage for a few more years with Windows Vista’. Or ‘They’d probably just play games all day with a new iPhone, I can save a bob or two if I hold off for ...

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