CHOW # 276: When is ‘the looser the hold, the firmer the grip’ not valid?

In the blogpost on overmanaging leaders and needy employees, we said that one of the key strategies to avoid creating needy employees is to empower them and give them autonomy. Now, while giving autonomy to our associates, we need to set the right kind of boundaries for them to ‘autonomy’ themselves in, and also make […]

Which came first? Overmanaging leaders or needy associates?

Yet another holiday season is upon us. The second in the vicious grip of the runaway COVID virus. We have run halfway through the Greek alphabet trying to name these ever-evolving bugs. Anyway, the word ‘vicious’ got be thinking about a vicious circle that many organisations seem not to be able to come out of. […]