I am better than my reputation
Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that people are making between the two.
Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.
Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.
Organizations should be built and managers should be functioning so people can be naturally empowered. If someone's doing their job, if someone's working in one of your warehouses, say, they should know their job better than anybody. They don't need to be 'empowered,' but encouraged and left alone to be able to do what they know best.
Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.
Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.
The parts of the universe. . . all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
What's really fun is seeing mothers bringing their daughters to the shows. And the best part is the mothers know they don't have to worry about sexual innuendo in the songs. The shows are family shows.
Treat each class as if it were your first.