Bay Jordan has proven himself as a manager and a leader in Southern Africa, Canada, and the UK. He attributes his career successes to an ability to help people recognise what needs to be done and then allowing them to get on and do it as they see best.
Early in his management career he was surprised when his manager fed back as a negative the comment that, “Your people are better than you!” Having personally recruited and retained his team, Bay considered this to be a great compliment. In fact, after learning that he shared his philosophy with Andrew Carnegie who wanted to put on his gravestone,”Here lies a man who knew how to put into his service more able men than he was himself,” he still considers the compliment to be one of the greatest he has received.
Unfortunately, even today, his former manager’s attitude prevails and is symptomatic of a prescriptive management style that inhibits performance and effective teamwork in most organisations. In this book! he explains the problem and shares ideas about creating the co-operation that will make any organisation more effective.
