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The journey begins with people.

No matter what the topic of discussion, no matter what is being debated, analyzed, preached or legislated, the starting point is people. As a manager, your first duty is to manage people.

Your highest duty as a manager is to lead people.

This first duty has a number of assigned tasks – to listen, to teach, to understand, to monitor, to correct, to develop, to approve, to build a team. There are several good and profitable reasons why you accept this duty and perform these tasks – it’s the job for which you are paid, it’s your profession in which you take pride, you enjoy getting the job done right, your success and your team’s success help grow the organization. And there is something inside of you that says being the leader of a successful group of people is satisfying and challenging, like being the head of a family.

You have one enormous advantage in leading the people on your team. You are a human being too. Although the blur of business (“Did we get that freight out to JFK yet???”) may obscure this simple fact, you share all the same sets of emotions, needs, fears, and desires as your people. You may not show it at work but you laugh, cry and have doubts in the same natural ways that they do. And your basic needs for self-preservation, respect, recognition, discipline, nourishment, comfort and the rest are the same also.

These facts are so elemental that they probably seem simplistic as you read them.

Are they?

When did you last consider the straightforward humanity you share with everyone with whom you work everyday? When you look at the people on your team, do you see the individuals or do you see what you think of each of them? What do they see looking at you – the manager who knows, listens and cares about each of them or the face of someone who comes to work with the ultimate goal of leaving it behind as quickly as possible?

The one thing that happens every workday is you enter and leave your workplace as an individual person, a human being, no matter what else occurs in the intervening time. The same happens to everyone around you. Is your goal to be as successful a human being as you can be at work every day?