I’ve learned that there are three
types of people to work with.
1. The Deligator
This person is always great to work with because they can take help from others. They pool together everyone’s talents and efforts and usually have a much more rich result. They are willing to let others take on different parts of the project and run with it. Giving then full responsibility for their parts in the project. Of course there is always the risk that someone will flake out but they are relaxed enough to handle this risk.
2. The Control Freak
This person is not willing to give up any decision making power in the project. They will not take the risk that something could go wrong. Although this approach allows less collaboration and synergy it also has it's upsides. When working with a control freak you have the ease of not making decisions and the simplicity of being a worker bee. You take orders and follow instructions, fulfilling the vision of the control freak. A benefit of this is that you get to relax and just enjoy the people you’re working with. You can let the control freak take on all the stress, creativity and decision making themselves.
This person is the worst kind to work with. They like to think that they can delegate but in reality are unwilling to give up control. They may ask you to do something and only after all the work is done tell you they want it another way. Thus wasting your time and effort making one wish they had just said how they wanted everything from the beginning and saving you the charade that they wanted input. In reality they want to feel very busy and that they can’t rely on anyone else to “get it done” or “Do it right”. They like the idea of collaboration but are only able to implement it in the beginning until they change everything to “their way”. Wasting your time.
I only pray that I can be a #1 or at least #2, I've also been really lucky with the people I've worked with.....but every once in a while..... you get unlucky.
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