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Hands-off leadership is lazy leadership

My perspective is that hands-off leadership is lazy leadership. And that is because some ~60% of our leaders have never received leadership training. We promote based on technical skills and we don’t provide leaders with the tools necessary to lead. Therefore, leaders tend to focus solely on task management and they are “hands off” with the people management aspect. And this makes sense! There’s a natural tendency to want to “get out of the way” because it’s the easy thing to do.

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Guideposts for leadership & culture decisions

We’re in the age of people using their online presence to resign publicly and call out companies for their inappropriate or toxic work culture. How to make internal decisions based off of thinking ahead: would I feel good if my clients or the public knew about this?

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Amber Waugaman Leadership Coach

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