Book Titles

The Effective Manager

By Mark Horstman

Year Published: 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1119244608
Categories: Leadership, Management, Success

97 Quotes Found

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The Effective Manager:

Even if you’re the nicest person… to them, you’re still the boss, and the power of your role distorts the relationship.

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The Effective Manager:

It’s unlikely that many of your directs… will automatically feel comfortable talking to you about anything at all.

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The Effective Manager:

Your directs don’t see you as a nice person. I’m not saying that you’re not a nice person… But that’s not how your directs see you. They see you as their boss.

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The Effective Manager:

Our role power as managers affects every interaction we have with our team members.

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The Effective Manager:

It takes even more trust building in a manager-subordinate relationship than it does with friends.

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The Effective Manager:

Generally, the more a team trusts its manager, the better the results will be, and the better the retention as well.

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The Effective Manager:

…you and your directs really aren’t, and can probably ever be, a true team.

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The Effective Manager:

…the binding and distinctive element of teams that outperform others is the amount of trust that they build and engender among their members.

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The Effective Manager:

If you’re going to create trust and trusting relationships with your directs, then, you’re going to have to talk to them frequently about things that are important to them.

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The Effective Manager:

…your relationship with your directs… is by far the most important thing you can do to improve results and retention.

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