[Superman]

I am blessed also, and have been many times in my career. I am currently very blessed.

Also, I am a fan of "Management" as a discipline, and "organizational behavior" kinds of consideration. I would say that overall, management fails when it lacks patience and/or courage.

Managers are control freaks. No doubt about that. It's how they got where they are. At that point, they will struggle mightily unless they learn to perform a 180-degree turn. Delegation means you're not going to do it....someone else is. Delegation requires courage. Managers can destroy months of their own efforts in trying to get workers to take initiative and take risks and use imagination and reach for the brass ring. By reaching around someone's shoulders, grabbing the wheel and making a course correction. Quite frankly, they would have been much better off invoking the courage to keep their hands off the wheel, and retaining the worker's loyalty and energy.

My favorite bumper sticker of all time? On an obvious forman's truck:

MORE WHISKEY AND FRESH HORSES FOR MY MEN

That sums up my management experience. As a manager, I have never done so well as when I stayed out of peoples' way, and got them the resources they need. Occasionally I knock down a barrier they could not have razed. I keep my hands and feet away from the moving machinery. And I appreciate it very much when my boss does the same.