DO NOTHING!

Great Leaders don't do anything - except think, make key decisions, help people do their jobs better and add a touch of organizational control to make sure the final recipes come out okay. In sharp contrast, most leaders are too busy working to do these things - and their teams suffer as a result.
DO NOTHING's practical strategies and true stories show leaders how to set high expectations for their team and watch them rise to the challenge.

So many leaders not just workaholics, but everyday, hardworking, achievement-oriented leaders try too hard. They see themselves as the most critical members of their teams and to their detriment, focus on themselves. J. Keith Murnighan, professor and consultant, thinks leaders can benefit by learning one big lesson how to do nothing. Murnighan argues that although we may have strong desires to move up in the world, fear, uncertainty, and a little anxiety accompany the idea of every upward job change and as a result, many leaders continue to work at the technical part of their old jobs, micromanaging when they should figure out who is good at a particular job and then getting out of the way to let them do it. Hands-off management pushes team members to strive for excellence and to do so in their own way, with limited controls and interference and high levels of accountability and trust. Drawing on extensive research and examples from all over the business world, Murnighan shows us that doing nothing is an incredibly hard job for a leader but you must do less to get more.

J. Keith Murnighan is an award-winning Professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. His research has been cited by the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Economist, Forbes, and other media outlets. He had also consulted for organizations including Ernst & Young, Kraft, Motorola, and Pfizer.