MY BIGGEST FAILURE AS A LEADER

MY BIGGEST FAILURE AS A LEADER?

I TOLD MY TEAM...

AT GRANNY&SMITH NOBODY WILL GET FIRED...

Ever!

,,LARS, WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT?I HEARD THAT'S THE LATEST SHIT IN LEADERSHIP, RIGHT?!“

MAKE AN EDUCATED GUESS WHAT REALLY HAPPENS...

Innovation?

Nope, not anymore...

,, Lars, what happened?!"

If people feel absolutely safe...

It's said they will become innovative...

,, Lars, that didn't happen?!"

Nope. At least not in our company....

We had the opposite effect...

People became so relaxed...

That we had almost no output anymore!

Even worse....

People focused on their own topics and

even started to work on stuff that...

had nothing to do with our company

,, Lars, isn't it great to see people being creative?"

Not if it's only for their own purpose.

or for their own purse.

people even told me: " Lars, i can do what i want, you'll never fire us!"

,, So Lars, what did you do then?!"

Nothing. I was told to tolerate and soon we will thrive....

,, Lars, so - happy ending?!"

Nope.

We tried this kind of leadership for a few years...

and finally gave up.

because people did not become more innovative

or more intrinsically motivated

or more team orientated

overall and highly abstracted

we experienced a culture of....

a gentle recreational attitude

people said, come to granny, there you can relax

,, Lars, sounds great to me?!"

No it's not!

And i will tell you why

First fact, you'll lose the high performers....

that really want to actively shape the future

and you can't make any profit

which is probably not so bad at all if your job is still fun, but

in the end you earn peanuts and can pay peanuts

and this way the downward spiral begins

,, Lars, what have you done to solve it?"

Actually i can't tell you in a short story, but...

Did i mention that there's an astonishing greaaat book out there?

Get. Real. Innovation.

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