What Kind Of Manager Is Your MAP?
by Miki SaxonPhil Gerbyshak (whose new book, Help Desk Manager’s Crash Course, I edited) has a great post on being a glass-is-half-full, high energy manager.
“This is how I live my life and my job: targeted, yet half-full and open to the possibilities that I can, and my team can, achieve more.”
Sure, you read this stuff all the time and you probably wonder if this is the real person or a public persona.
Well, I’m here to tell you that Phil is 100% real; in current jargon he’s completely authentic.
How can you get to be like Phil?
Read books, such as the one he mentions? Read blogs like his or mine?
They’ll help, but first look in the mirror. What do you see? Do you see the type of person that Phil’s describing? Is that what your family, friends and team sees?
If not, then before you spend the time on the books and blogs spend time on your MAP (mindset, attitude, philosophy™), because if your MAP isn’t in sync with the action you want it isn’t going to happen.
It’s said that the best things in life are free; I think that the best things in life are chosen.
Choose to change or enhance your MAP today!
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July 6th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Thank you for sharing me in this way Miki. Some days, it is hard to manage this way, for it means I am disappointed when my team doesn’t perform as well as I know they could, and I take it personally when they fail. I try my best not to take it out on them, and look for ways I can do better, ways I can reach them more, for that is my MAP.
Thanks for your help with the book too! GREAT work!