PolekChris Polek shares that as a leader your job is not to solve everyone’s problems. Your job is to hire results-oriented problem solvers.


What happens when you hear these words?  Does anxiety set in?  Perhaps you are relieved that you have a moment to unplug?

I had the great opportunity to attend a meeting last week to see a fantastic speaker, Dan Barnett, talk about Make or Break Cultures, and how you can get extraordinary results from your team.

Norma was our group leader for this event.  She shared this picture from her recent trip to Iceland where she saw this sign at a café.  Norma reminded us that we were there for a couple of hours, and that we should shut off our cell phones, so that we could all take advantage of working together, and learning valuable new strategies that Dan would help us bring back to our businesses.

The result: people left the room energized; armed with new ideas to work on their business to achieve new levels! If we as business leaders and managers were this disciplined more often, what could be achieved?  Well, 3 very important things would happen:

  1. Employees get better at making decisions
  2. You get better at solving problems
  3. You find more opportunities

Sounds good doesn’t it?  Let’s take a closer look:

Employees get better at making decisions

Think about when you experience reading the umpteenth e-mail that you have been cc’d on volleying a decision back and forth.  As the boss, you decide to end this, by replying the solution, and move on.  While you may feel a temporary sense of achievement, like the gun slinger that shoots the bad guy, you have set yourself up for a bigger problem.


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