The Omniscience Trap: What It Is and How It Holds You Back
Who among us hasn’t fallen into the trap of believing that in order to be worth our salt as managers, we must be omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent on the job? In Truman-esque fashion we declare that the buck stops with us, and confuse taking responsibility for results with being responsible for controlling everything that happens with a project, department, or business unit. Everyone knows about the bottlenecks that occur when too much information is forced to flow through one pair Read More