February 2019
Beginner
3520 pages
50h 49m
English
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Harvard Business Review Guides Ultimate Boxed Set (16 Books)
by Harvard Business Review, Nancy Duarte, Bryan A. Garner, Mary Shapiro, Jeff Weiss
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Chapter 15
Management Time
Who’s Got the Monkey?
A summary of the full-length HBR article by William Oncken, Jr., and Donald L. Wass, highlighting key ideas, with commentary by Stephen R. Covey.
THE IDEA IN BRIEF
You’re racing down the hall. An employee stops you and says, “We’ve got a problem.” You assume you should get involved but can’t make an on-the-spot decision. You say, “Let me think about it.”
You’ve just allowed a “monkey” to leap from your employee’s back to yours. You’re now working for the person who works for you. Take on enough monkeys, and you won’t have time to focus on your own priorities.
How do you avoid accumulating monkeys? Develop your employees’ initiative. For example, when one of your people tries to hand you a problem, ...
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