Kill the Manager!

We've got to understand this difference between the manager and the leader. Now, it'd be nice if all managers were also really effective leaders too, right? But it's not so much. So we gotta kill the manager. Now, before you get the wrong idea, all right, this is based on an old Japanese mind exercise called a koan. And all a koan is, it's a puzzle, it's a riddle, and it's designed to make us think very deeply about something. And one of the most famous ones is, "What do you do when you meet the Buddha on the road?" Kill him. Now, why would you want to kill the Buddha? He's a pretty nice guy, right? It's not about the Buddha as a person. The Buddha represents enlightenment, right? True understanding. And the strange thing about enlightenment, as soon as we think we've got it, We usually don't. So it's about killing those parts of us that hold us back from that, which might be— when we talk about enlightenment, that might be delusion, arrogance, pride, things of that nature. Well, it's the same thing when we're talking about our evil manager. Now don't get me wrong, management is important, but it's not leadership. For one thing, the manager motivates. The leader inspires. The manager delegates, the leader empowers. And the manager pushes or drives, the leader guides. So when we're talking about dealing with people, we're talking about killing that manager in us and letting that inner leader shine through.