Stupid and difficult
Your management style is working brilliantly. Your team is firing on all cylinders and you’re trucking down the highway at a progressive clip. Would you…
There will always be secrets.
But very few are justifiable.
The rest of the time, transparency, visibility, make things open, obvious, clear, explicit.
No sacred cows or no-go areas. Put everything and as much of it as possible on the table.
Mine for context and understanding, ask stupid and difficult and uncomfortable and obvious questions, investigate assumptions, look below the surface. Ask the why questions, and make sure everyone understand the what and the how of the answers.
Set up dashboards of important indicators, keep an eye on them, set up alerts for when they’re moving outside of acceptable norms. Talk about them, monitor them, reference them in meetings, show them in updates, plan with them, make changes to make them better.
Because … transparency sets the fulcrum for every lever, and leverage means you can do almost anything.
Skippy strategy: Create the conditions for transparency – then look in.
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