Businesses are consistently being told how to improve, but what about managers? What can they do to improve? The easy answer is “work harder,” but what does that entail? How can one transform from an average manager into a manager of awesomeness? Now is the time to rid yourself of mediocrity and become something stellar.
Now is the time to rid yourself of mediocrity and become something stellar.
The Harvard Business blog “Voices” introduced “The Awesomeness Manifesto,” which challenges the outdated idea of innovation and searches for what is truly awesome. According to Umair Haque’s Manifesto, “awesomeness is the new innovation.” While it is easy to see how awesomeness is achievable for businesses and corporations, how does it affect the foundation of the organization: its people? According to the manifesto, there are four pillars of awesomeness: ethical production, making insanely great stuff, love, and thick value. All of these can be applied to the individual in his quest to become an awesome manager.
This is Part 1 of a 4 part series. Each part will represent one of the pillars necessary for awesomeness.
Ethical Production
The topic of ethics can be overwhelming as it is abstract and largely dependent upon the individual’s perspective. To be an awesome manager means to lead ethically, to think before acting, to set goals, and to figure out how to accomplish those goals without cutting corners or walking over others. Cutting corners can potentially accelerate the completion of a project, but it can also accelerate your termination. “Good guys finish last” is an outdated mantra from the innovation era where value was achieved by cheating others. Embrace the era of awesomeness and strive to be ethically productive; working ethically will immediately gratify you as an individual and will be noticed.
Continue your awesome read with Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.
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