RULE 7
Make your team better than you
A really good manager, yep that’s you again, knows that when their team takes wing and soars, they too will soar. Getting your team to soar takes courage, grit, determination and an overwhelming passion.
You have to make members of your team better than you, which means trusting them, getting them the best resources, training them to take over from you, trusting them not to stab you in the back when it’s time to take over from you and being confident enough in your own abilities not to be jealous of them when they do take off. Tall order.
It takes quite some manager to carry this one out. You have to be pretty relaxed and secure in your own position. Encouraging your team to bring it on takes guts, quite ...
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