Steve Chandler and Duane Black’s
The Hands-Off Manager
addiction says, “I was able to overcome, defeat my alcohol-
ism, and it lies in a heap and I am victorious over it.” They
just say, “I’ve moved on. I’ve accepted my powerlessness and
taken another path. It’s not a part of my life. I’ve chosen a
different way, a different form of spirit than alcohol was.”
Carl Jung said, “People do not solve their psychologi-
cal problems, in my experience. They outgrow them. They
grow in a different direction and just leave them in their
history.” This is what the process of
allowing success
is all
about. It’s the heart and soul of hands-off management. It’s
considered a revolutionary form of management because
it breaks all the old codes of manipulation and mistrust.
Some therapists often say, “In order to move on, you
must reenact a conversation you had with your antagonist
all over again and resolve that memory that’s inside you.”
But that’s just giving more strength to the story. And we
are looking to free you from your stories. Micromanagers
in the workplace do the same dysfunctional thing those
therapists do. They relive breakdowns and mistakes and
go over and over them, making people wrong all day long.
Why not just leave it there and move on? Release its
power over you. See it in a different light, so that you can
focus on your natural talents, your God-given gifts, and
bring the best of who you are to the surface.
The hands-off manager uses this principle to not carry
grudges; he meets with every person in the workplace with
equal trust and understanding. The past is nonexistent.
Most micromanagers in old-school organizations to-
day immediately think that when things feel wrong, they
have to
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