The Leadership Japan Series By Dale Carnegie Training Japan

Leaders who are remote from staff have long been identified as a problem.  They don’t delegate, preferring to do it all themselves. This subtly tells everyone, “I don’t trust you”.  They keep the drip, drip, drip of information from above firmly to themselves, as a means of maintaining their position power.  They are poor communicators and don’t know how to inspire the people who work for them.  They have poor people skills and are generally regarded as duds, as far as the troops are concerned.  They dislike mistakes and will publicly flay the perpetrators, effectively driving passivity and fear into the team. Now, all of this was taking place in the office, where heads can easily be counted. People can simply be engaged by calling their name out and telling them to come and see you.  Judgements can be made on who is working hard and who isn’t, by observing body language and activity.  Meetings can be called quickly and coordination is relatively straight forward.  Life gets a lot more complex when we start t