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Pain, Learning Organizations, and Trainwrecks

Managing Up

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Are You Making Your Life Easier?

A lot of leaders are putting themselves in really bad situations by trying to step into all those gaps and take that pain away. I think some component of this is probably driven by ego, a or or misunderstanding of what should be my job. When one thing i wrote down, it's always dangerous to do somebody else's job. And so that's the first question i ask. If there's pain,  is it my job to eliminate that source of pain? And if it's not, and it actually is somebody else's theoretical job.

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