Performance Problem = Leadership Problem | Episode 028

Let's start with the thesis that managers' primary responsibilities are to do everything possible for their teams to have excellent performance, regardless of whether they work in a change and transformation mode or normal conditions. It follows that if there is a problem with someone's performance, we have a leadership problem. Therefore, to improve team performance, leadership should be adjusted and improved in the first place.

The outstanding individual performance is nothing but a function of outstanding leadership. Let's get political for a while. An even more understandable example in this direction is that if there is a problem with the representation of a minister in a government, the real problem is in the manager of that minister, i.e., in the prime minister. In city centers, people quickly identify where the real problem is in the government's representation and start protesting (in the prime minister, not in the civil servants).

Things are not so clear in the company "governments." There is a tendency to explain poor performance by people's shortcomings rather than by the leader's weaknesses. The unsatisfactory performance of people in the teams is not explained by the fact that managers are constantly changing their priorities, fail to control their emotions, get distracted and forget about commitments that fall on their teams at the last moment of implementation, and conflicts arise. Weak managers explain their poor team performance by saying that the material is terrible, just like BB explains it.

There are too many common parallels between poor government and poor corporate leadership. The most common thing is that there are accusations against others instead of looking at their own mistakes. This behavior is somewhat normal because all five of our physical senses are directed outward to assess the external environment. We have only one inner sense to evaluate our own actions. It doesn't function for everyone. It is everyone's conscience.

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