If you’ve ever seen how a rooster behaves after its head has been cut off, you can easily imagine how a manager, rather than a leader, acts. Constant busyness, closed office doors, a million tasks, bulging eyes, perpetual chaos, and so on.
But this is not a leader who can achieve success. This is a headless chicken. Such a person doesn’t solve problems; they make them worse. Want an example? Easy—my kids. They are 7 and 2.5 years old—an excellent age to demonstrate “effective” management.
The older one wanted to go to the bathroom at night but didn’t want to go outside (it was at the dacha). So, she ended up using the younger one’s potty. Did she solve the problem? It would seem so. However, in the morning, it became clear that the potty was overflowing and had spilled onto the floor. What needs to be done? Empty the potty. Where? It doesn’t matter. The main thing is to do it quickly. Haha! The potty gets dumped onto the well-kept lawn right by the entrance. This didn’t solve the problem; it only made it worse. Now there’s a stench and the prospect of killing the grass, which has to be dealt with by watering it abundantly. So, instead of a 2-minute trip to the bathroom at night, half an hour was wasted, and with consequences. A typical example of not being a leader, but rather a headless chicken. Foreign managers have a good phrase: “do the right things.” Because it’s simple. Then it won’t feel like you’re a headless chicken, since you’re doing the right thing here and now, rather than just doing it quickly.
If you are a leader of a group of people and you are constantly in a rush, you don’t trust your subordinates, and life feels like a struggle, then call me. An hour of your life spent with me will give you more than a year of your frantic pace. And you can’t get your health back, right? Or do you enjoy being a headless chicken? It’s like a “thrill.”
P.S. By the way, take a close look at the behavior and eyes of Ukrainian politicians. No, I didn’t vote for any of them. But still.