Believe it or not we finally concluded chapter 6 - People!  We continued our discussion on John’s various principles of people development.  The two major topics we discussed were "Care for people before you can develop them" and "Look for opportunities to build up people".  Many of John’s ideas were again common sense but very often overlooked. 

We went into great detail (again) about when is it appropriate to "add value" to your subordinate’s ideas.  According to Marshall Goldsmith, adding value almost always never makes sense.  The perceived increase value is always more than offset by the subordinate’s sense of losing the ownership.  We strongly felt this was an important discovery and decided to add it as a learning

Next time we will discussing the next chapter on Vision.  Stand by for a brand new mind map!