In the old days of the Industrial Age model of leadership everything was pretty simple. The leaders made all of the decisions and the followers did all of the work. There were very clearly identified lines of authority and policies and procedures for everyone.
The major goal of the company culture at the end of the day was to prevent failure. Therefore if you had a problem with two people that were chronically taking too long for lunch breaks then you would design a system where everyone would have to sign out and sign back in.
Then it became some middle managers job assignment to monitor the system until it became a part of the new and improved culture for the company and that would solve the problem with lunch breaks. This cycle was repeated over and over again and the best people in the organization were always assigned the duty of cleaning up the mess produced by the worst ten percent of workforce.
Today you better have your best people working on your biggest opportunities or you competition will eat your lunch and you will not need to sign out and in anymore. You must move from a culture that tries to prevent failure to one that ensures success.
This means that you define success not by how the process is managed by what type of results your people are achieving. The leaders number one responsibility now is to hire great people and set the vision for the organization.
The winners will take care of the strategy and it will produce results but you will probably have to live without your weekly employee lunch report. You will not need it any more they fired the two people.
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