Click here to listen to an interview of David with Kelly Andrew Brown from Small Business Guru. Some of the topics we touched upon include:
- Leverage your management responsibilities ‘in the service of others.’ Helping your employees helps you reach your goals.
- Focus on your strengths – learn what your strengths are by asking friends and colleagues
- Strength Based management is all the more important for 1 – 2 person organizations. You don’t just focus on the strengths of your employees, but of your partners, your vendors, and your clients.
- Asking ‘Why’ is powerful. Always try to have clarity on the purpose of your activities to ensure you get the outcome you want.
- The quality of ‘leadership’ is over valued, it’s the operational managers and employees who actually get things done.
I agree with several points you have made. We firmly believe that everyone in the company should determine what tasks give them energy and which tasks drain their energy. They should then delegate the tasks that drain their energy, otherwise you have A players who are performing tasks as B players.