Problems with Leadership!
Are you an owner of a business? Are you a leader in a business? Are you in any form of power position at all in the workplace or an organization?
Do you have the power to change someone’s life for the better or the worse? Listen up, right now. If you have any sort of reach or ability to change a person’s day, please change it for the better.
I learned long ago that kindness is not a weakness. Kindness is the greatest superpower one can possess. Being kind and being able to have compassion and understanding is not easy. It is the lowering of your expectations, lessening of your ego, and opening your listening skills as well as your heart.
The Asshole Boss.
The asshole that one often works with has zero compassion and their Ego is bigger than Uranus. The next time you encounter problems at work or in any organization, ask yourself if you are the asshole first, before blaming others.
Listening and understanding are superpowers and with great power comes great responsibility. People will ask your opinion on the silliest topics and sometimes very private ones. What you do with your superpower comes at a cost. That is the responsibility to hold secrets and to shape someone’s life.
This is where your leadership and people skills come in handy, provided you have those interpersonal skills. If you do not, you should learn or change positions because you will fail. Or hire someone that knows to guide you.
Know how to delegate!
If you are a boss or a leader, please understand you need to be nice. Unless you are very rich and choose to be an asshole, at least be the best asshole you can be. But remember, you are only as good as the people you surround yourself with. When you have upset angry, frustrated and dysfunctional people around you, your company or organization will be dysfunctional as well.
Know how to delegate and learn how to be nice. Delegating work is assigning tasks that you had hired people for. Being nice has nothing to do with work and or delegating. If you are a leader, you can delegate and hold people responsible at the same time without pushback or anger. Treat people the way you would like to be treated. No one likes it when people are rude and disrespectful so why should you be?
Hand out assignments/work and be kind. When there are problems, address them. Do not call out people in front of others, and don’t create problems where there are none. Be nice for crying out loud.
