A manager who deliberately did dishes badly to avoid the chore learned a lesson about leadership: you're judged by your team's performance, not your own. Leaders who do tasks themselves instead of delegating miss the point of management.
Used to tell different people on my team all the time, like, if you're in any type of leadership position. When I first got married, my. My wife, like, I tried to be bad at doing the dishes. Do you know why I tried to be bad at doing the dishes? So nobody never asked you to do the dish? Yeah. So she'd be like, get out of the way. I'll do it like. And as a foreman, I see you guys all the time where, like, you. You fall into that trap where it'll be faster if I do it myself or I want it done a certain way, so I'm just going to do it myself. And just leadership in general falls into that trap where they judge themselves on how well they react to the situation, and they don't take a step back and realize that their bosses and everybody else is judging them on the performance of the people below them. What's happening in your department? What's happening on your team? As a shop foreman, you're more judged on what all those technicians are doing, how many comebacks do they have? What production are they putting out?
