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Surrender?\u00a0 What?\u00a0 We hear cues almost daily in our culture that surrender is not a viable business position.\u00a0 Surrender is akin to failure, losing and admitting defeat, or is it?<\/p>\n

Mike Myatt at Forbes wrote a great piece arguing that actually surrender is a mark of a great leader, not a weak one.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

As managers, we seek to control our operations, our processes and, lets face it, our people.\u00a0 The result tends to make processes more predictable and who doesn’t want that, right?<\/p>\n

As leaders, we ought to be unlocking potential, remove bottlenecks, develop opportunity all so that our business thrives and grows beyond the status quo of our existing, predictable operations.<\/p>\n

Surrender allows us to get out of the way of the micro and controlling mindset to discover and promote value we otherwise would have missed.<\/p>\n

I agree with Mark Myatt, surrender is not the answer in all situations.\u00a0 Nor is control.\u00a0 A thriving, successful, passion centric business needs both excellence in management control and surrender in it’s leadership.<\/p>\n

You can read the original article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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