Stop Trying to Manage Employees Without Understanding Them — How to Build Relationships for Leadership Success

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Here’s something I’ve always believed: the better you know your team members, the easier it is to give them the support and freedom they need to be successful in their work.

At my last company, all of my direct reports were with me for at least eight years. We went through a significant portion of our lives together. My team members lost family members, had legal issues and fertility issues, got married, moved and divorced, and I saw it all. I also saw how all these things affected their performance in the office — some were temporary changes, while others were

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