Making change is is difficult. Status quo flexes it's impressive muscle, puts us in a headlock and soon has us doing things the same way we always did them before.
That last sentence is an excerpt from the next book I'm reading on the altMBA reading adventure The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More and Change the Way You Lead Forever. Everyone always talks about how hard change is, but that sentence captures it better than any analogy I've heard before.
The author promises that developing a coaching habit can help ourselves and others get out of 3 vicious cycles that plague modern workplaces: creating overdependence, getting overwhelmed and becoming disconnected.
Of these three I've definitely been stuck in the first circle the most. I've created over dependence, which only turns myself into a bottle neck (and gets me overwhelmed and others disconnected). I'm hopeful this book, and other altMBA learnings, will help me to not just get out of the way, but to more skillfully empower others by increasing their autonomy and sense of mastery. It's not just a matter of sink or swim. We need to give them an A on swimming and send them out into the possible to thrive.
Being a Force for Good 