Delegation or Escape? (Pt. 2)
In a former article I wrote about Delegation vs. Abdication, I discussed how the difference between productive “delegation” and weak “abdication” came down to two things: 1. EMPOWERING and remaining invested in an assignment for an employee, show you care and are there to help to the best of your ability VS. 2. ESCAPING a responsibility; simply dishing off an assignment and not providing much in the way of support for who you assigned the task to.To favor the power of delegation, at Amazon Web Services (AWS), we were always encouraged to create mechanisms. Simply, a “mechanism” here is a […]
Delegation or Escape?
Some years ago, while me and my pastor were “breaking the rules” of Christendom (i.e. taking our children “trick or treating” while sipping our bottles of Mike’s hard lemonade), I took advantage of the opportunity to complain to him about the shortcomings of those around me. Namely my complaint was that those about me didn’t run with the assignments I delegated to them and instead would put in periodic efforts to meet the minimum expectation and then hope that I would forget or worst yet, acknowledge the request and then ignore it, which frustrated me. What makes a “Good Leader?” Being […]
What Does it Mean to “Hire and Develop The Best?”
What Does it Mean to ‘Hire and Develop The Best?’ | Amazonian Leadership Principles Legally, a corporation is its own separate entity, its own body, acting in the marketplace as an individual. But just like bodies of our own, every company is made of parts and, no matter how small—many moving parts that vary in size and responsibility, and yet all contribute to the same thing: the health of the company. So, how does this idea of the importance that each person is a part of one whole, maybe not acting in unison, but wanting the same things, relate to […]