by Rick Baker
On Jan 30, 2021
The Thinking Behind The Tweet
Having been through those challenges, and rethinking business, I have a better picture of what we need to do to protect our businesses. I know business leaders need to inject Maker-thinking into their business. And, they need to do more good-old-fashioned testing of ideas...that's the entrepreneur-proven route to innovation.
Canadian leaders need to stop avoiding people problems and come up with better ways to remedy them.
Canadian leaders need to start matching talents with tasks.
by Rick Baker
On Dec 14, 2020
The Thinking Behind The Tweet
We cannot practice when we don't know the what and how of task-details: we cannot teach when we don't know the what and how of task-details.
But, do not expect your teachers will be masters of work performance: knowing the what/how of tasks and doing work at the master level are 2 different things.
Mastery of tasks is rare; even the most skilled performers make errors; errors define near-term limits, however, near-term limits do not have to be long-term limiting.
Errors only become long-term limiting when we choose to give them that power.
by Rick Baker
On Dec 2, 2020
The Thinking Behind The Tweet
We often hear advice like, "You should empower your people, provide them autonomy, give them decision-making authority, and get them to take responsibility".
That's not the right mindset. We should not see ourselves as agents who 'empower' people or 'give' people things like autonomy: we do not transfer energy or power from us to others.
People have, within them, all the energy and power they need. At best, we can help them understand their energy and power and ensure we do not block their efforts to use their energy and power.
We can help people by showing them how to 'un-entangle' the energy and power within them. One good way of doing this is leading by example.
[And, we should be clear about another thing: 'delegation of authority' is not 'empowerment'.]