If the Shoe Fits: Show Your Love
by Miki SaxonA Friday series exploring Startups and the people who make them go. Read all If the Shoe Fits posts here
Today is Valentine’s Day and a good time to consider how best to show your love for your team.
Basically, there are two ways bosses show their love, either with cool tools or magic minutes.
Think about the old saying, “give a fool a tool and you’ll still have a fool,” which is frequently forgotten in our tech-happy world.
For discussion purposes, the term ‘fool’ denotes an underperforming person or group.
Showing your love by showering them with the latest, greatest technology or apps is unlikely to turn the fools around.
That’s where the magic minutes come in, because the majority of fools really aren’t fools.
They’re more like lost souls looking for a path to productivity, personal satisfaction and success.
Most people want their company to succeed, want to do their work well and want to feel good about what they do.
And whether you like it or not, when you chose to found a company you took on the duel roles of leader and manager.
That means your real job is spending whatever minutes are required to guide them to the path out of fooldom and into becoming an appreciated member of a powerful team.
It’s also one of the most important and satisfying experiences you will ever have no matter what happens to your company.
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