Management By Getting the Best Out of Others

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Management would be easy if everyone you managed were hard working, collaborative, and had a great attitude and exceptional talent. But then it wouldn't be management. It would be sitting around doing little while legions of highly motivated people worked happily and diligently.

The reality of course is far different. Simply put, some people are easy to manage and others are hard. And "hard" takes many forms. Some are talented but not collaborative. Some are collaborative but not too talented.

Some are too aggressive and others not aggressive enough. Some are well-intentioned but high maintenance, moody or easily distracted. Some are just plain difficult. And so on.

You get the idea.

So how do you manage this challenging subset of the broader employee population?
Personalities being variable, individuals need to be managed individually, but there's still general guidance that can be provided.

History is full of stories of gifted people whose talents were overlooked by a host of people. And their talents lay dormant until someone looked for the good in them. Such was the case with Einstein, who couldn’t speak until he was four years old.

And such was the case with Walt Disney, who was fired by a newspaper editor who said he had no good ideas. Until someone saw the good in them, they didn’t amount to much.

Being able to bring out the best in others is a skill that involves just 10% natural inclination; the other 90% has to be deliberate.

“It can’t be learned by listening to a lecture or reading examples,” he says. “It needs to be practiced, reinforced, and used day to day.”