Refreshing Leadership

I received an interesting and encouraging email just this morning that actually relates to the four categories of managers I mentioned in a previous Energy Message.  If you recall the four categories are high focus-high energy, low focus-low energy, low focus-high energy and high focus-low energy.  The smallest, but most efficient group are the high focus-high energy.  According to the research completed by Sumantra and Bruch one of the factors that increases the number of managers with high focus-high energy is the behavior of the CEO.  They suggest that frantic behavior at the top tends to generate frenzied and unfocused managers.  Obviously when top leadership exercises high focus-high energy it tends to generate more efficient managers.

Now, back to the email I received.  It came from a general manager who was advising a friend who had recently been hired to take a management position in a new company.  The refreshing and, I might add, accurate advice was, "Your number one asset is your PEOPLE and you must invest in THEM ALL THE TIME.  Develop plans to make them successful and your success will take care of itself."  Well said!

Best to you,

Dr. Bob      

Comments

[Robert]

I am pleased to see someone refer to their employees as assets. I have always objected to being a "human resource". Resources are to be exploited, used up, sometimes wasted. An asset must be maintained and cared for. Assets make you money. I try to let my people know I appreciate them and honestly care about them and their career paths. I try to treat them as an asset, not exploit them as a resource.