“Leaders should be seen and not heard”

This saying is attributed to Lao Tzu. Does it have any bearing on leadership and management today? What do you think?

I see a link here with a facilitating style of management. You know what it’s like in the workplace today. The boss bosses and the workers get bossed! It’s the 21st century for goodness sake and some managers still manage as if they were in the 19th century.

Facilitation is about helping and guiding, not spoon feeding. It’s about ‘throwing back the ball’.

Very often employees come to their boss and expect the boss to make the decision or to do the difficult task. This kind of upward delegation only serves to deprive employees of development and cause managers more and more stress.

Managers need to learn to ‘throw back the ball’ and encourage employees to take on responsibility.

What do you think?

Syd
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