Great leaders are like gardeners

Paul Chaplin
2 min readJul 22, 2022
Photo by Jill Wellington: https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-walking-on-bed-of-tulip-flowers-413735/

I read a book recently and highly recommend for reading if you are interested in building great teams; Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility by Jonathan Smart. One of the sections covers leadership:

“Gardeners don’t try to command plants to grow with a detailed Work Breakdown Structure in a Gantt chart and milestones. With care, they tend to the garden, planting seeds

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Dragging people from one place to another efficiently. I write about being the voice of reason and how to get things done in a straight forward way. Whisky.