Cox Business Consulting | How to be Less Demanding and More ...

Posted by Tom on Leadership on Monday, August 13, 2012

Jake is a terrific member of his fast-growing company?s senior leadership team. His boss Darcy, the owner, is a sweet lady with great personal skills. That complements Jake?s tough, task-oriented, ramrod approach. Odds are good Darcy will one day sell the firm to Jake? if she doesn?t fire him first. Such odd-couple pairings are common in highly effective organizations. Common also are the tensions between them. The effective CEO recruits for strength where she herself is weak, in order to round out a diverse team. However it?s not enough to let leaders play to their natural strengths ? letting the people-person build relationships while the letting the task-oriented person drive for results. Each leader needs to encapsulate ?just enough? of both capabilities. In practice, that means getting better at what Pete Friedes (in ?The 2R Manager?) calls your ?less dominant? management style. You need to have enough of a relationship [...]

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