5: The Lazy

Question

In which you discover the question

that will make you more useful to

those you manage, while working

less hard, and you decide that

being lazy is a good thing after all.

You’re So... “Helpful”

You’re a good person, and you’re doing your very best to let your
people thrive. You want to “add value” and be useful. You like to
feel that you’re contributing. However, there’s being helpful, and
then there’s being “helpful,” as in stepping in and taking over. And
way too often, you get suckered into doing the latter. Then
everyone—you, the person you’re “helping,” the organization—
pays a price for your attempted helpfulness. Your good intentions
often end up contributing to a relentless cycle of exhaustion,