Devoted to Managers and those that seek to improve their management skills

This may surprise some of you, but one of the major barriers to management growth is getting attached to the current way things are being done.

You might ask the question then of how can anything get done if we aren't attached to it. The answer is that you do have to operate in the current situation you're in, but hold how you're doing it lightly. What is working right now may not work tomorrow. To bury ourselves in a short-term way of handling something can cause us to camp in the same place and make us reluctant to find new solutions to new problems.

Many times when new problems come up, the solutions we've used yesterday won't work today. This is one of the key reasons we must not hold on to things too tightly.

What I'm really saying is that success can sometimes be one of the greatest barriers to growth, if we fail to move on from it. Attachment to something comes about because we were successful with it at some time in our experience.

This doesn't mean that something that has worked before won't work today, but that the longer time goes on, the less chance it will have of providing the answer for now. We all need to be careful not to impose past successes on current situations; many times they won't be compatible together.