Have you got the right kind of glasses!!

I remember sitting down with Dad and talking to him about some manufacturing problems that we were suffering - he turned to me and said, "You need new glasses?" I looked at him and naively said " I don't wear glasses?"

Dad looked and said "The trouble is you are leading with a magnifying glass, put it away and get out your binoculars"

That advice was 15 years ago and I still remember it, especially when I coach in business. Many issues revolve around leaders micro managing leaving the managers with a confused role. The best leaders leave managers to manage giving them the magnifying glass and then they reach for the binoculars....