The Surprising Secret Todd Henry Reveals About Becoming an Irresistible Leader Everyone Depends On
Schawbel: How can creatives adjust to leadership positions and overcome the obstacles of change?
Henry: Here’s the problem: your entire career has been a giant set-up. You’ve been told that in order to advance, you just have to do great work. The better you control that work and make it great, the quicker you advance through the ranks of the organization. However, the moment you become a manager, you have to make a critical mind-set shift from control to influence. If you try to control your team, and get directly involved in every single decision that’s made, your team will resent you and its capacity to do good work will never grow, because they’ll always take a “wait and see” approach if you’re always swooping in to save the day.
