{"id":994,"date":"2005-10-19T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-19T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/enabling_leader\/"},"modified":"2005-10-19T09:33:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T09:33:00","slug":"enabling_leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/enabling_leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Enabling Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a leader who is currently enabling (unconscious or conscious) the bad behaviors of your people?&nbsp; If you are, you have a lot of company.&nbsp; This type of influence is a big contributor to why people fire their leaders\/managers.&nbsp; Environments where this dysfunction is allowed, are lacking in every way imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s a surprise&#8230;enabling is common to human beings.&nbsp; We all tend to want to avoid confrontation.&nbsp; Therefore, we avoid issues and behaviors in the name of &quot;peace.&quot;&nbsp; Sadly, avoiding the issue makes things worse.&nbsp; Eventually, it will mean a messy clean-up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had to learn (and still learning) that you must make tackling issues an act of will.&nbsp; Without this, you&#8217;ll convince yourself that there must be another way.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve determined what the right thing to do is, then act and don&#8217;t think about the consequences.&nbsp; Doing the right thing will take care of the consequences, and your people will be inspired by your willingness to act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a leader who is currently enabling (unconscious or conscious) the bad behaviors of your people?&nbsp; If you are, you have a lot of company.&nbsp; This type of influence is a big contributor to why people fire their leaders\/managers.&nbsp; Environments where this dysfunction is allowed, are lacking in every way imaginable. Now here&#8217;s a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}