Donald Burns criticizes the common, outdated management technique of "break them down and build them back up," calling it harmful and delusional. He urges leaders to stop using that mentality, arguing it tears teams apart rather than builds them, and says you can hold high standards and be firm without insulting people — be a leader without being a jerk.
Your current management style is a product of your past. The most common and outdated management technique out there is the break them down and build them back up. I have to say that delusion is a powerful mental drug that keeps us stuck in average. Here's a solution if your go to tool for whipping your team into shape is using the break them down, build them up mentality, stop immediately. You're not building a better team, you're actually taking tearing the deal apart hashtag wtsd. You can hold up the standards in your restaurant without being a jerk. You can be firm without insulting people. You can be a leader and not an.
If your restaurant only works because you work 80 hours a week, it doesn't work.
