{"id":374,"date":"2016-05-03T10:04:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T08:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carsten-friedrichs.de\/en\/?p=374"},"modified":"2018-09-26T21:48:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T19:48:49","slug":"power-to-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carsten-friedrichs.de\/en\/power-to-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Power to the people"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you don\u2019t believe in people, they won\u2019t grow<\/em><\/p>\n

This is an interesting and true thought of Monique Valcour in the HBR<\/a> . If you don\u2019t believe in people, they won\u2019t grow, they won\u2019t evolve.<\/p>\n

Personally it reminds me on two lessons I\u2019ve learned. #1 was in school. I didn\u2019t perform as expected in Chemistry and after some 6 months I had a serious discussion with my teacher explaining my the implications of my low performance. But one thing that made the difference: Somehow he believed in me. He told me: \u201cI know that you can perform much better..\u201d He believed in me. A year later he highly recommended me to study Chemistry due to my excellent performance an natural skills for the subject.<\/p>\n

#2 was 15-20 years later, now being a leader myself, one of my team members wasn\u2019t perceived as a high-performer by the rest of the organization. Literally his days were counted before I stepped in to reorganize. It was time to give back. I told him that I trust him and believe that he will be good in leading his own team and gave him a chance and promised to support whenever needed. He took this challenge \u2013 and given the unsupportive rest of the organization it was a challenge. The stunning rest of the story is that he became an excellence leader with high focus on people development.<\/p>\n

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There are two more articles which \u2013 at least from my perspective \u2013 have the same idea:<\/p>\n

“People\u00a0stopped\u00a0trusting\u00a0leadership\u00a0when\u00a0leadership\u00a0stopped\u00a0trusting\u00a0people” from Dean\u00a0Brenner http:\/\/switchandshift.com\/11-trademarks-of-rebellious-leadership<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Vertrauen f\u00fchrt” from Carsten K. Rath http:\/\/www.carsten-k-rath.com\/2016\/04\/06\/vertrauen-fuhrt\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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