The Managerial Leadership Bible: Learning the Strategic, Organizational, and Tactical Skills Everyone Needs Today, Second Edition

6. Analyzing Players and Prospects for Team Success

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what you want and expect. Then let them surprise you with their abilities and ingenuity!

—General George Patton

Learning Objective

After completing this section of the course, you will be able to gain a better objective insight into each player on your team.

The most overlooked component of people management today, in the academic halls of America’s colleges and universities, in the classrooms of today’s managerial leadership training programs, and at executive retreats, is the element of “how-to”: how to objectively, thoroughly, and analytically assess the abilities and capabilities of yourself and of the players on a team.

If organizations and ...