Bossing can be a tough business since it's dealing with all the humans.

Sometimes bosses are so good at delegating you wonder if they are pulling their weight.

However, there's another group of bosses that truly suffer as they fully engage in their responsibility to make sure the team performs the work... unwittingly taking on responsibilities that need to be taken on by the team for workload balancing and/or allowing for the personal development of other employees.

I've been this kind of boss at points on my journey and I've stepped into new awareness of where some of the propensity to over-reach and overwork comes from for me. Part of this awareness came from reading one of the Ken Blanchard "One Minute Manager" series books.

In "The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey," Ken Blanchard (with William Oncken Jr. and Ken Burrows) use the concept of monkeys jumping on your back to illustrate how some bosses reduce the performance of their division or team because they absorb the work in small work interactions.

It is a compelling behavior to pay attention to toward improving your personal and team results.

I hope you take a listen. It's time to manage the monkeys.