Dear LOers,
For all those of you interested in empowerment, I recommend to read the
article at:
http://www.goldratt.com/empower.htm
There Goldratt shows how to overcome conflicts which arise from
misalignments between responsibility and authority. Such misalignment is a
core-cause for the prevalent "fire-fighting" which waste most of the time
of many managers and which leaves so many employees with the frustrating
unempowered feeling, even worse, they have responsibility but not the
required authority. To align authority with responsibility is one step on
the way to un-unempower people. The article shows, that this is possible,
but not trivial "just do it".
If successfully aligned, this is in my eyes no sign of manipulation but an
outcome of respect for the people - a common base of Covey's 7 habits and
Goldratts approach to "managing people" (I hope, that the phrase "manage
people" did not yet become synonym with "manipulate people" - its respect
that makes the difference.)
Why does respect deteriorate to one of the most common, yet most truely
unwanted lipservices? What can be done to overcome this?
Liebe Gruesse,
Winfried
--"Winfried Dressler" <winfried.dressler@voith.de>
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