Some Simple Ideas to Help You Manage Other People

Jurgen Wolff

How do you best manage other people? You need to understand what people need (support) and what people want (recognition), and you need to provide the people you manage with the full measure of support and recognition that you’d want and expect for your own efforts.

We All Need Support

Not having the support of those closest to you can be a real drag on your efforts. For example, a spouse or a partner or parents may be condescending or skeptical about your goals. Can you get them to change their pattern? Well, yes, but only by changing your pattern. There is a very wise saying about this: “We train other people how to treat us.”

When the other person makes a joke about your goal, ...