Mike’s Company
“Okay,” says Mike, “let’s give this a happy ending. Take a look at the last diagram in this series, titled Enabling Empowerment: Reaching the Goal.
“The employee has now reached his goal. He has stayed within bounds, perhaps with a bit of extra coaching when he got very close to the boundary. But he achieved his goal, and he achieved it on time. Don’t forget that achieving the goal within a certain time is one of the boundaries.
“Although he didn’t take the straight line I might have taken, he accomplished his goal on time. He was, therefore, successful. He didn’t do it my way, but he succeeded. And perhaps it turned out that his way was even more effective than mine—much as I might not like to admit it sometimes,” Mike says with a good-natured smile.
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