If you want to be a great leader you have to be lazy


In today’s time when entrepreneurship is on rise; its every leaders’ dilemma on how effective is their leadership style - do they want to be clever and hardworking or clever and Lazy. 

Laziness when carefully practiced with cleverness can prove a real boon to leaders. Please don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that you stop answering calls, sit on your barcalounger and play video games all day long. That will make you lazy and stupid. We are trying to make a new leader-one who is clever and lazy enough to empower his team to make strategic decisions.

Lazy leadership is all about getting to the point and stop wasting time in unnecessary meetings & tasks. It is about the art of delegation.
It is about understanding what task you can do and for what task you should hire people smarter than you. 

While delegating a crucial task, the beginning may feel like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute however in the reality while there are things you are very good at and ample more for you to be good enough at, you should not be the only person doing all the things required to run your business. To create a business that will outlive you, delegation is key. it’s about take a back seat, depend on your team, and become an observer instead of an active participant in your business.

It’s about taking a step at a time – hire smart people – delegate - hire smarter people to manage them and then hire smartest to be the CEO; while you sit on the Board drinking your vintage chardonnay.
With this you empower a group of smart intelligent people to do the best work of their careers while you focus on the bigger picture and take your business to next level. Lazy leadership isn't really about being lazy.

It's about taking a step back, enabling your teams and watching the magic work!"
Spending time on what is important and what you’re good at, then leaving everything else to your team.
“If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business, you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic.”— Michael Gerber, The E Myth

Tamer El-Sagheer
Skillinside

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