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If you are not in it, nobody will be in it for you. You tell your followers to do certain thing and they end up doing what you do. If you loaf over the job, they do the same; if you are hard working, the people around you will do the same.
Nothing will be done until you are involved; you must be involved all through the process. When your followers know you are not deeply involved in the process they will cut corners and end up with shoddy and poor quality job. This is what we call supervision failure. The leader may mount up excuses upon excuses and put blames on his followers yet he is to be blamed for incompetence and losses whatever.
Sometime ago when my son was six years old, he brought home an assignment from the school. I supervised him on questions one to nine. On the tenth question I assumed he knows it already so I failed to crosscheck. The next day he came home and told me bluntly that I was the cause for missing a question. Initially I wanted to argue but upon examining myself I saw that I was not detailed enough and I acted on assumption that he will do the right thing.
It is an assumption and error of leaders to think that their followers would do the right thing. Leaders should not assume but should be in the picture and details of the activities of their followers. You are the leader because you understand the detail of the job than you followers. If your followers understand the detail of the process than you, you may soon switch role.
Role up your sleeves and get into the trench and work; you cannot know the details by mere overseeing: your hands have to be on the job and be directly involved in every phase and activities. Through this you will gain insights, knowledge and experience to put you on top.
For instance, if your subordinate knows that you do not know better they can always come up with all kinds of excuses of why excellence cannot be achieved. But if you have been in the trench and through the process you would mature to determine whether an excuse is plausible or not; and you would insist on achieving excellence anyway. For real leaders, there is very slim room of possible failure and there is much room for excellence if he is involved and labour on the vision along with his followers.
The followers would also respect such a leader and take him serious on the job because he is involved in the process.
Another merit of a leader who is directly involved is his ability to foresee when a problem or challenge is brewing and he acts quickly before it becomes too late. But a leader who oversees from afar would have sunk before he realizes what goes wrong. A good leader would also know when things are taking good shape and he will motivate his team to seize the moment for a landslide success record.
Look at the job or project that is nose diving under you. From level 1-10, 10 being the highest, score your level of commitment.
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List areas of your life you need to put in more commitment
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