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Are You Rewarding Performance Theater Over Real Performance?
To uphold their commitment to quality, good leaders operate as editors. It may be the most important slice of what they do as leaders. As leader-editors, they determine what is important, how to make it understandable, and when it is ready for prime time. Their editing skills apply to decisions, proposals, ideas, messages, and meetings.
Even good teams and organizations can suffer from attrition and face the challenge of retaining the best talent.
Creating a stable group of colleagues can present quite an obstacle in the age of a fast-moving and highly mobile workforce.
But the opposite problem can present its own unique set of problems. Some teams and organizations actually create too much stability.