This is not about me. But about my experience…

Don’t you hate these guys who know everything better than you?

Even worse if they are your boss…

But maybe you should reconsider if „hate“ is really the best attitude to have towards them… Let me try to explain why I think that way…

When I think about the statement above two types of guys come to my mind.

Number one is the guy who knows everything better than you – but does not! In fact he just thinks his ideas are the best but they are not. You know and your colleagues know – just he does not know… Well read the first sentence again and you will see, he is not the person I want to write about – since he does not really know everthing better than you.

So let’s get to number two. The guy (or boss) that really knows everything better. His ideas are better than yours, his logic works on things you give up on – he is just brilliant. And you are not. At least not as brilliant or bright as him. People envy him, are scared to present him their ideas because he will have a better one, people agree to everything he suggests without any doubts and so on…

Well you might think „that is why he is the boss“ and you may be right. But you all know that in a management position you have to do what management is about and do not have too much time to spend for going into many details of everybodies work. So basically you are looking for people who can handle the details better than you could do yourself (or at least have the potential to do so).

So imagine being that person who cannot find anybody like that. Always having a better idea than the people working for you, always knowing a smarter way to solve the problem, always being more expert than your experts.

So what can he do – having the responsibility for both, business success AND the people working for you? Caring for the business you would have to overrule your employees everytime. Caring for your team you would have to sign on some wrong (or at least not perfect) business decisions. So that your team will not be demotivated all the time or always scared of your judgement for their ideas.

You will always have to find a way in the middle. Judging to let the people working for you go their own way to be able to learn, improve and be motivated by your encouragement. Or – on the other hand when it is a crucial decision for your business – interfere in an explaining way that everybody will understand the overruling.

I met both types of managers in my professional career… Working for number two made me change my attitude towards people coming up with new ideas that sometimes I thought were not too good… Think about the harm a not so brilliant idea could do to your business compared to the learnings and the improvement of your team-member and the good that could do to your future business… And then decide…

This helped me a lot so far…

And then again – I am not a genius so this could all be wrong for your type of business or cultural environment…

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