The One Vital Trait All Successful Company’s Must Embody In A Digital Work World

Working hours, workdays, and the cubicle micromanager is relic of the past.

Great leaders no longer manage based on the time their team puts in, but rather the results they must achieve. As Cali Ressler says, work isn’t somewhere you go; it’s something you do, and doing is all about outcomes.

When you manage based on time rather than results, time is wasted, and productivity plummets. You reinforce:

• Low-value work.
• Presentism.
• Disconnection.
• Frustration.
• Stress.
• And poor performance.

I used to think managing people’s time was what great managers did.

Think of all the books.

Think of all the companies you had as a model for what success looked like. They encouraged writing up lengthy employee handbooks, they tell you to manage by walking around, and they babble about other corporate nonsense.

As a manager, I would “enforce” working hours, set vacation and phone policies, and try to control the input of time as if I were some ruler of the clock. I thought if I could manage people’s time, I…