How Managers Sabotage Themselves & Ways to Fix It

Many managers with the best intentions tend to do a few things that look good in theory but tend to backfire in practice. Inc.com points out a few damaging practices that managers need to learn to let go of:

Taking ownership – no leader is going to be truly effective if they are doing all of the grunt work themselves.

Solution – Delegate! Let employees take care of less important tasks so you can spend your time on the critical aspects.

Answering questions – Bosses tend to do more harm than good when they answer every question an employee has.

Solution – When employees need help ask for what they see as solutions. You want to encourage a culture where employees self-evaluate and think for themselves before coming to you and taking up all of your time.

Striving for harmony – “Harmony is not necessarily your company’s best friend.” Having only “yes” men and women in your organization will only hurt the business and keep it from possible growth.

Solution – “Teach your team how to connect over tension and how to grow from healthy and vigorous debate.

Source: http://www.inc.com/jay-steinfeld/8-ways-managers-sabotage-themselves.html

What are your management best practices? What are other ways have you witnessed a manager sabotage their own good intentions? How could they have course corrected to avoid that?