CleverControl talked to experts and rounded up the most common misconceptions of leaders. Here is the list of 17 fallacies of managers both inexperienced and quite "experienced" ones.

人们和我的想法一样

Smart House Group的开发总监和共同所有人Janice Peterson评论说。

"When I was a young Manager in a big company, I naively believed that people are telepathic, and if I can do something quickly so can they. Pretty quickly I figured out that it’s not true at all. After I became the owner of my own business, I also initially often was wrong about people’s motivation – I believed that they perceive the same business goals as well as I do."

如果你指示，他们就会跟随

咨询中心Step Seek的首席执行官罗伯特-贝尔(Robert Bell)说。

"Aspiring managers have the following fallacy: assuming that if people are given a task they will definitely perform it. They do not think that the task should match the performers. People should be competent to solve the problem, have the authority to address it and be motivated to produce a result. Otherwise, the situation will be exactly as in Antoine de Saint Exupéry's "The Little Prince": "If I ordered,” said the king. “Ordered a general to change himself into a sea bird, for example, and if the general did not obey me, that would not be the fault of the general. It would be my fault."

If you don't push people, they will do nothing

这与之前的误解恰恰相反。Present Green公司CEO唐娜-迈尔斯的评论。

"Most people don't understand what it means to manage: it means to work systematically and as a team:

  • 就是要找到比自己更聪明的人。
  • 这是为了给他们提供机会和工具。
  • 它是为你的下属建立和实施工作评估标准。
  • 它是为了不使一个人的负担超过必要的限度。
  • 它是与人交谈并向他们传达工作的本质和价值观。

Most managers I meet are bad at delegating, they disrupt the subordinates’ with work regular reports-issues-meetings, change the rules id they don’t want to follow them themselves, overload people with tasks, and do not care about feedback".

如果我提高工资，我就会增加积极性

英特雷公司的高级培训师顾问克里斯蒂娜-莱文说。

"Most of the leaders’ misconceptions are the limiting beliefs: "If I raise employees’ salary, they will work better". Experiments show that the introduction of two ten-minute breaks has a greater effect than a small salary increase."

冲突将自行解决

克里斯蒂娜-莱文继续说。

"Some leaders mistakenly believe: "If I do not intervene in the conflict, it will be resolved by itself". But most often the opposite happens: the conflict draws more and more employees and causes a significant loss of working time."

没有时间谈论前景，有必要解决当前的问题

Says the head of the event agency "DirCut" Adam Walters:

"Instead of thinking about the development, planning the future, and investing in the promotion, a "young" manager seeks to be in command of everything and clings to the work of the subordinates. Of course, it is important to stay in the team and know what's going on both psychologically and tactically. But participating in all processes that are a part of subordinates’ tasks is not at all necessarily. It is important to be in the right place at the right time, so come and save the day, because it's your job as a leader, and the rest of the time you have to deal with the implementation of the development strategy of the company or department: to develop new and potentially profitable markets, tasks, and clients."

OneWiser的高级顾问Dorothy Richardson也谈到了对未来思考的低估。

"If we talk about novice leaders, often they are confident that they will succeed without fully thinking through their decisions, their level of the "strategic thinking" competency is quite low. Therefore, they often make mistakes of not thinking through their ideas, are inexperienced in making certain decisions at first, and have some difficulties with the delegation of authority and the optimal allocation of working time of their subordinates."