How your team measures you: after 50 years of being managed and managing, this is what I learned you must do as a manager to earn loyalty and get a person's best work.

• Author: Wiesner, Pat
• Position: On MANAGEMENT

YOU MUST

* Understand the difference between management and leadership. You manage things, you lead people.

* Be a leader who creates an atmosphere of approval and acceptance and high expectations for all.

* Share your vision of success with all your team.

* Attract, motivate and keep top people Tor the team lo work with.

* Pay fairly.

* Motivate, appreciate, approve and reward individual success.

* Be a boss who enjoys the success of others and helps them achieve it.

* Realize that managing is more than scorekeeping. A Frankenscorckeeper is a lousy manager. A Frankenscorekeeper is someone who goes nuts with numbers and counts nothing else.

* Believe in your people.

* Be tough and insist on lop performance.

* Prefer to promote from within.

* Zone. Get out of your oil lee. Go talk to the people.

YOU MUST NOT H Have all the ideas.

* Take all the credit.

* Make me do all the work.

* Treat me like a mushroom. That is, "in the dark, covered with BS."

* Criticize me in public.

* Surprise members of the team. Keep them well informed. Respect their ability to think and help.

* Block me from your boss.

* Block me from my future.

* Use your desk, your office and the amount of lime you spend with various team members as a psychological weapon.

YOU SHOULD KNOW

* A loner is not a good personality for a team leader.

* screamer or someone who deals with people in a loud or intimidating manner also makes a poor manager. And will eventually fail and should be fired now.

* That job one is 10 develop your employees. That a leader's most powerful words are "What do you think?" Followed by careful listening. And then get everyone involved.

* Get out of the power seat. Let someone else run the...