Thanks Manu, its so true!
My core mistake as a manager is that for years, I thought that managing people meant making them change in a better way to fit the job.
After all these years, I no longer see things that way. You can’t change people’s talents or what deeply nourishes them.
Managing means making sure that the context and the working environment enable everyone in your team to be at the top of their game and to deploy their strengths to the maximum.
It’s about ensuring that work is a place of fulfilment and recognition.
The kind of management that kills is that which undermines motivation, or organises work in such a way that people’s talents can no longer be expressed.
This is the idea of the gardening manager, often mentioned by Isaac Geetz that helps me a lot.
