Human beings are generally not capable of managing more than six to ten people, particularly when things go sideways and inevitable contingencies arise.
No one senior leader can be expected to manage dozens of individual much less hundreds.
Teams must be broken down into manageable elements of four to five operations, with a clearly designated leader.
Those leaders must understand the overall mission, and the ultimate goal of the mission.
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Most of us have worked with someone who had an outsized effect on our emotional well-being. To cope, we’ve tried a few tactics: venting to friends, disengaging from the social scene at work, gossiping about the person in the hopes that our bosses will learn—via the grapevine—just how miserable we are.
Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.
Praise can be easily missed when given without form and deep thought
No matter what you’re feeling, it’s important to be able to recognize whether what you’re experiencing is the result of healthy career growth and change or the result of a toxic work environment.
