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Andrew Smith's avatar

In a world of business hares, try to be a turtle. Be steady.

This resonates with me as a business owner, although the deluge of business certainly has a mind of its own in spite of all our preparations. Still, we can do a lot to smooth things out.

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Martin Prior's avatar

Good leaders provide a filter for their teams.

I recently had a situation where one of my team was identified to step up and replace me while I headed off on secondment elsewhere.

They thought they could do my role having watched me for 2-3 years. I appeared to do very little compared to what he did in his opinion. Couldn’t be difficult right?

Well, little did he know just hoe much filtering I was doing. Small pulls on the tiller pulled the team away from the rocks before they even knew there were ro is there.

As leaders we need to create the right conditions for our team. In a way it’s like vegetable gardening. Get the right conditions and your plants will grow and flourish.

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