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• boring graph or 20-part building slide that describes all the components of your new strategy. If they are interested, they can read the slides at their desk. Your employees want to hear your opinions on things that they think about all the time.
• Great managers build accountability into flexible work plans and manage performance aggressively.
• working long hours just because “everyone does,” you are creating a culture of waste, inefficiency and ill health.
• As much as you want to make yourself feel good about a situation that is not right for you, it will feel awkward, uncomfortable, and downright painful after a while.
• Meetings, useful when conducted the right way, turn into agonizing wastes of time as the same problems are hashed over and over by the same rambling people for months on end without any resolution or decisions.