Establishing the boundaries
Your knowledge of how to achieve the goal becomes especially important as you move from being hands-on to being a task manager, as you move from phase one to phase two in the diagram we showed you before, the Life Cycle of a Manager. As you begin to have other people around to help you, you couldn’t be more certain that you know how to get things done. After all, you invented the method, and all these other folks are new. So, you’ll likely be inclined to instruct others to do things as you did (“do it my way”).
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