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■ Don’t micromanage.
■ Make people unafraid to challenge your thinking.
■ Are consistent.
■ Say you’re wrong when you are.
■ Give big challenges to people so that they can learn and grow.
■ Remember that people work for more than money or title; they
want to be a contributor to something important, good, and
worthwhile.
■ Make note of others’ accomplishments and successes; they can’t
always toot their own horn but sure like it when you do.
■ Provide opportunity for career advancement.
■ Never resort to “Don’t forget for a moment that I am your boss and
you’ll do as I say as long as you’re here, or you won’t be here long.”

Give Acceptance but Do Not Tolerate

Poor Performance

To develop others, start by taking on an attitude of giving acceptance. As
you have a right to expect acceptance from others and feeling broadly
adequate, you have an obligation to give acceptance to others and main-
tain their self-esteem.
This means that you choose not to judge others’ motives or
character, only their behavior. You have no hidden agenda, work with a
clean slate, have good “forget-ability,” and tune out a lot. You recognize
no divisiveness because of race, title, or history. Do not assume evil inten-
tions on the part of others; understand that there are just differences. Be
reasonable, decent, considerate, and respectful of others; control your
judgment, rage, or anger. You understand the inherent equality of all
humans.
Confident people give acceptance; insecure and paranoid people
do not.
So how do you do it? Start with the attitudinal goal to do all you can
to maintain the self-esteem of others. This is your number one job in life,
much less in business. Every individual’s desire in life is to feel good about