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I realized how I was hampering the productivity of my team by not giving them the power to fully do their jobs. Not only was not giving them power, but I wasn’t giving them clarity, either. So I wrote a message to our staff describing that I was no longer their manager, but their director. They are now managing themselves.

Sometimes we learn the hard way; sometimes we take it easy. An excellent article for anyone in business.

Directing, managing, isn’t that just semantics? No. There is a very important difference.

A few days ago I was talking with one of my managers. He said he had so much going on that he needed an assistant. It sounded reasonable. The next day I was talking with a different manager. With that last conversation fresh in mind, I lamented that we are buried in projects and that perhaps we need to hire another manager to get all these projects done. Do you know what she told me? She said, “We don’t need more management, we need less.” She is right.