Focus

One of the most pervasive behaviors we find in today's business is the lack of focus by key executives. Many of them are off fixing everything instead of delivering the vision and values a company needs to run on. They often feel they are the best answer to whatever the problem is, and they probably are. But, instead of growing the rest of their management team, they take the easy route of "I'll take care of it". Empowerment is a very hard concept for these fix it freaks. Most importantly, if their team isn't growing, in most cases neither is the company or the executive with the focus problem. Try this, take one week where you try to fix and/or run everything. Take another week and empower others to do the necessary deeds. Measure at the end of the two weeks and see what was actually accomplished. Then check the morale of your staff. I bet you will be surprised.