There’s a very short list of new manager “must-dos” in the Rands Management Rule Book. The brevity of this list comes from the fact that a must is an absolute and when it comes to people, there are very few absolutes. A clever way to manage one person is a disaster when applied to another. This makes the first item on the management must-do list:
Stay flexible.
Believing you’ve seen it all is a bad idea. Staying flexible is the only stance to adopt when constant change is the only constant.
Paradoxically, the second item on the list is surprisingly inflexible ...
