Our government, and we voters, could learn from Google. QUOTE The prototypical leader is a hero: gives the rousing speech, inspires the troops, and shows up at the last minute to save the day. ... but thats not at all what Google discovered as their most important qualities. At Google, theyre obsessive about looking at data to determine what makes employees successful and what they found in the numbers was surprising. ... The most important character trait of a leader is ... The more predictable you are, day after day, the better. ... because then employees grasp that within certain parameters, they can do whatever they want. In other words, when managers are predictable, they remove a roadblock from employees path — themselves. Managers have their own tendency to meddle, criticize, and second-guess. Without that roadblock, employees dont have to worry about whether their manager will try to jump in and save the day with some new idea. Instead, they have the space necessary to do an amazing job. On the flip side, [i]f your manager is all over the place, youre never going to know what you can do, and youre going to experience it as very restrictive. ... [i]f a leader is consistent, people on their teams experience tremendous freedom. ... The freedom that a consistent leader provides is a powerful force because having autonomy over ones work is one of the most potent motivators of personal productivity. ... In 2004, psychologists, Edward Deci and Richard Ryan conducted a study of hundreds of associates at an investment bank on their job satisfaction. ... Deci and Ryan ... discovered that the employees with autonomy were not only the happiest, they were also the ones with the highest job performance. UNQUOTE businessinsider/surprising-trait-at-google-of-best-leaders-2014-7
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