I have a great senior employee who is massively eager, capable and running at a million miles per hour - in generally right direction.
The challenge is not motivation, guidance or direction. The challenge is constraining him.
Why constrain, i hear you ask. Well it is all about moving a group forward rather than an individual. If we did all the things that this senior manager wanted to do in the time that he wanted to do them, we could over stretch the business and potentially not achieve the outcomes we want to achieve.
At the end of the day we need to get the balance between driving the business forward at a great rate of knots and running at the speed that the organization can cope. It is a balancing act and something that needs to be constantly monitored. The last thing a business needs is burnout.
However if the balance can be achieved, a business can deliver amazing results.
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