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Ron McFarland has been working in Japan for over 40 years, and he's spent more than 30 of them in international sales, sales management training, and expanding sales worldwide. He's worked in or been to more than 80 countries. Over the most recent 17 years, Ron had established distributors in the United States and throughout Europe for a Tokyo-headquartered, Japanese hardware cutting tool manufacturer. More recently, he's begun giving seminars in English and Japanese to people interested in his overseas travels and expanding business overseas. You can find him on LinkedIn.
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Great article Jos. It brings me back to my sales management seminars days. The manager should present what is to be done, but how to exactly do that should fall more to the staff. Offering advice or recommending resources might be needed at times, but that should be up to the staff to determine if it is needed. Other than that, you're right to just stay out of his way and let him run with the project on his own.
Great article! It's nice they way you connected Open Organization Principles to burnout. Extremely creative people always have just one more thing to do, as the ideas just keep coming. That can overwhelm us all. I like to think of two words when that happens. One is "concurrent", and the other is "sequential". When everything is coming at us all at once (concurrent), we have to line everything up and approach them one at a time (sequential). Within that line, I like to add fun activities to keep my energy up. When you get older, energy becomes extremely important. So, I like to evaluate all activities as either energy consuming or energizing. There must be a balance between the two to be both productive and happy.