Caring LO18603

Richard C. Holloway (learnshops@thresholds.com)
Mon, 13 Jul 1998 09:10:29 -0700

Replying to LO18587 --

Rol--

I've spent most of my professional career believing that I should love
those people who worked with me and under my leadership or management.
Here are some principles that guided me in that relationship, though:

Don't patronize
Be genuine
Be professional at all times in the relationship
Love them enough to be tough, fair, consoling, caring, tolerant and demanding
Grow them towards their aspirations (teaching them to act as autonomous
agents)
You don't have to like them to love them
Be even-handed and treat each person as an individual
Do unto others as I would have them do unto me (or--what comes around goes
around)
Keep high professional standards for myself and others
Remember that we (all of us) have personal lives and significant others to
attend to.

thanks for bringing this thread up--

regards,

Doc

-- 
Sitting quietly
doing nothing
spring comes
and the grass grows by itself.  -Zen Poem


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