
3 Ways to Give Back the Monkey
Being a valuable resource for your direct reports can be critical to successfully managing your team. It can also be a time waster of epic proportions. I was recently working with a company on a major time management issue. We discovered the root cause of the problem was not only the abuse of the “open door” policy of the leadership team, but the fact that, in many cases, they would simply “take the monkey” from their direct reports and assume the burden of the task because t