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I want to start by defining Self-Esteem so we are all on the same page. From the Mayo Clinic:

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Self-esteem is your overall opinion of yourself — how you feel about your abilities and limitations. When you have healthy self-esteem, you feel good about yourself and see yourself as deserving the respect of others. When you have low self-esteem, you put little value on your opinions and ideas. You might constantly worry that you aren't good enough.

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My definition of a leader is:

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Inspires and Motivates People | Helps People Achieve Their Goals and Objectives | Helps People Overcome Their Challenges | Steers People Through Change

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How does a Leader impact Employee Self-Esteem? He does this by:

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Engaging | Enabling | Empowering this team.

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The assumption here is that people with the right profile have been hired and onboarded properly. Once in Steady State, the leader will lead his team to not only achieve the organizational goals but also their personal and team goals.

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Let's start with the assumption that the right candidate is hired. One who meets the requirements of the open role and one who fits into the culture of the organization. So that they can grow and contribute more broadly.

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Let's assume that that employee has been trained on the job at hand, the organization, the market in which they operate, the products and services, etc.

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Let's assume we have managers that implement the following management systems:

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Organization & Management Systems, Processes & Procedures, Technology & Tools, and Mindsets & Behaviours. (deeper view would be Operational Management, First Line Management, Upline Management & Governance, and People Management)

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In those management systems, you have such things as corporate strategy, financial management, sales and marketing, security, performance feedback, reporting & measurements, etc.

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So if you have all these key disciplines/systems in place, one would assume that everything should work well. However, in my 24+ years at IBM in various global roles, I can tell you, SHYTE does hit the fan. And usually, as I travel the world recovering these problematic accounts, I discover that it comes down to weak disciplines/systems and more importantly a disengaged/disconnected staff. They stop giving a SHYTE. Sometimes its due to ineffective managers, corporate red tape, or personal issues.

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What if there is no leader. I think in the NFT/Crypto space they were talking about DAO. Here is the wiki definition of that:


A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), sometimes called a decentralized autonomous corporation (DAC),[a] is an organization constructed by rules encoded as a computer program that is often transparent, controlled by the organization's members and not influenced by a central government, in other words they are member-owned communities without centralized leadership.


I don't believe this will work, but we will see.


Also, regarding employees needing to be enabled, engaged, and empowered. I would say it is not black and white. I have seen where employees have everything they need to be successful. And other orgs where they have a few things.


So a manager needs to ensure that employees have bought into the corporate vision, mission and goals. They have the tools to do their job. And they have systems in place that allow them to make "decisions".

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