{"id":26,"date":"2006-04-04T05:29:41","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T05:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/archives\/26"},"modified":"2007-02-21T19:00:05","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T08:00:05","slug":"clear-structure-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/clear-structure-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Clear structure&#8221; Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;True freedom is not the absence of structure &#8211; letting employees go off and do whatever they want &#8211; but rather a clear structure that enables people to work within established boundaries in an autonomous and creative way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Erich Fromm (1900-1980) <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Operating in the absence of all structure is not only difficult, but stressful for most people.<\/p>\n<p>When people are critical of someone&#8217;s leadership or management style you will find the themes that recur relate to inconsistent expectations and structure &#8211; things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;You never know where you stand with her.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;He tells me to take more responsibility but always compains that he would have done it differently.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;m supposed to get approval before I act, but when I try to I&#8217;m told to just get on with it!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is often our role as a leader to provide structure for those on our team, by establishing clear and consistent expectations and boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>Then it&#8217;s our role to get out of the way and let them do what they are meant to do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;True freedom is not the absence of structure &#8211; letting employees go off and do whatever they want &#8211; but rather a clear structure that enables people to work within established boundaries in an autonomous and creative way.&#8221; Erich Fromm (1900-1980) Operating in the absence of all structure is not only difficult, but stressful for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-leadership-quotes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}