Reflection: A good deputy does all what is instructed. A smart deputy does what is expected.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Deputizing Responsibility
I was telling my mother yesterday how my right-hand man at the office does so much of my work, I can focus a lot more on my real work.
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Give a Man orders- He will do a good job
ReplyDeleteGive a Man freedom, respect and an objective- He will embark on a personal mission of excellence.
Question for us, the yesterday's and tomorrow's "Leaders"- Do we give orders or do we give freedom, respect and an objective
Classic answer for us: It depends!
ReplyDeleteIt depends on the specific organization that is under consideration. In some, there can be no freedom or respect,- only objective. And the overriding objective is simply to keep your brains at home and come follow instructions. But then, we chose to be here. So, no regrets!
In a crisis- the General's word is the law. During execution of a task requiring urgent decision making, the leader has to have a final say
ReplyDeleteIn good times "The administrative aspects of a commercial organisation is no different from the administrative aspects of ...the organisation under consideration. Therefore vision mission, strategy, goal setting, planning, organising, coordinating, ..........
Divine love and divine perfection- both principal objectives of the "organisation" and "Brains" are not mutually exclusive..in fact they are complmentary. By Brains I mean creativity, innovation, lateral and out of the box thinking.
Anything creative can happen only we stretch beyond our comfort zone and stretching beyond inevitably requires using our ego-Come on I will not fail, Come on I will do this...etc
Ego and motivation of ego is required to convert divinity to human excellence in as much as copper is required to convert pure gold to a fine jewellery. Freedom, and respect are therefore not out of place in a spiritual organisation
That does not take away the fact that the Leader has to have the final say. Leaders who delegate should maintain control.