If you’re the BOSS don’t make the mistake of being business Google.
If you’re the BOSS don’t make the mistake of being business Google.
When someone goes to google for an answer and finds it they are more likely to go back.
If they make several successful trips to google they’ll form the habit of going to google.
They will also learn to stop thinking for themselves.
Google is the path of least resistance.
When someone goes to the BOSS for an answer and finds it they are more likely to go back.
If they make several successful trips to the BOSS they’ll form the habit of going to the BOSS for answers.
They will also learn to stop thinking for themselves.
The BOSS is the path of least resistance.
Human always seek the path of least resistance:
• The boss gets hooked on giving answers and getting a little dopamine hit
• The boss becomes a bottleneck
• Many of the team stop thinking and become slow, make errors (because they don’t have the full puzzle in their head just peices), they become unmotivated and stressed as all dependent and confused people do.
Don’t be google, think more curious George.
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