Support your team, don’t tell tales, don’t name names. You take the money, you take the blame. My old boss always made it very clear that, as an Executive Manager, I was accountable for everything that was sent out of my Division. When one of my team sent a letter to an industry stakeholder giving some advice that turned out to be wrong, the recipient of the letter complained to my boss. My boss called me in to his office for my explanation, which I gave him. He was pretty ve

"The ultimate use of power is to empower others."- William Glasser "If you have power, you have to empower." - Kanye West "Leaders are those who empower others." - Bill Gates If you empower others you don’t disempower yourself. This should not be a selfish, defensive thing where I’m thinking, “They may do a better job than me and make me look bad. They will look good and get promoted over me.” If you allow your staff to do their work, if you give them the resources with whic

You Can’t Do It All By Yourself: Delegate! To delegate means to make another person responsible for undertaking a task. For this person, who is usually a subordinate, to complete the task I must give him/her the resources to complete the work. Just as important as resources I must also give him/her the power or authority over the resources ie to spend money, prioritise time to do the work, allocate tasks to others over which they have been given authority and use other resour