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By James McIntosh
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The podcast currently has 489 episodes available.
Surely you’ve noticed how those higher up become uncomfortable when someone lower down thinks at the level of a higher box.
Do you want ongoing success at work? Then stop your so-called best practices.
You're the boss. You get to delegate tasks and projects. But what do you do when they, on the receiving end of your power, ask you for help with the task or the project?
There is a risk in listening to employees. But the risk lies in ignoring them *after* we allow them to speak up and make suggestions.
We humans, since the planting of that first garden, have managed to get so much stuff done. Almost all of it trivial.
The further into the future you can think and operating, the higher up you will climb on the corporate ladder.
If you are a manager, you must know how to make decisions and how to take decisions. Actually, these skills apply to all of us, so pay attention.
You can start your day the way a specific Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius, did. Or said he did.
Pride is just a way of rationalizing their predicament. In one case, awful conditions. In the other, inflated importance.
Doesn't it just get to you when you make a poor decision only to find out that other people had information that would have changed your mind?
The podcast currently has 489 episodes available.