YOU KNOW YOU HAVE FULLY ARRIVED AS A MANAGER WHEN:
1. You have surrounded yourself with a trustworthy team of lieutenants whom you can fully trust.
2. You can fully deputize these lieutenants to act in your absence.
3. You can be gone for extended periods and receive only occasional phone calls from a team member who wishes to alert you or “check signals.”
4. When you return to the work site, instead of questions, you receive reports: “This is what came up. This is how I figured you would want me to handle it.”
5. Upon receiving the report, you can comfortably and honestly respond: “Good job. Thanks.”
John F. Macek MSSW, LCSW