9 tips for managing with empathy from a neuroscientist

Managing people is about helping people tap into underutilized reserves and overlooked skills that are indigenous to them, not fixing their habits.  The people you manage naturally look to you for answers. They might even ask you to tell them what to do, which creates two major problems: If you tell them what to do, and even if you’re right, they won’t learn anything. If you give clear instructions regarding what to do and things still go wrong, they more than likely will blame you for the resulting mess. This kind of dynamic quietly creates an unhealthy dependency where the employee begins...