Rice: Supporting employees' personal priorities empowers teams and builds organizational strength
Susan Rice · The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization · Jan 27, 2020 · at 29:39
Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice discusses how managing around team members' personal life needs strengthens team resilience and leadership.
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“If you had to go to do what was vitally important to you as a human being, then that was what was most important. Not least because you weren't going to be effective anyway, if you were stressing out about this, but also because it's a way of saying we care about you, and we value you as a human being, and we got your back, and we as a team can fill in behind you. And that I think Is empowering to one's team and one's people, but it's also, in many ways, the source of one's own strength as a leader.”
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