Management Challenges

• To know what's really going on. 
• To plan without stifling. 
• To achieve and then change. 
• To foster trust. 
• To learn from fools. 
• To shun empty results.
• To be close enough to care and far enough to see. 
• To simplify your message. 
• To listen to the whispers. 
• To adopt the proper pace and timing. 
• To hear the unsaid.
• To resist smugness. 
• To know what is unknown.
• To spot a dodge.
• To distinguish between friends, enemies and those in-between.
• To listen to dissent.
• To fight fatigue.
• To know what's said in the boardroom and the lunchroom.
• To build the right team.
• To calm the nervous.
• To sense when to push and when to back off.
• To know when to be the hedgehog and when to be the fox.