Saying NO is not Leadership

 

 Never Say No 

It's my personal opinion and observation.  I have seen people getting influence with statement "A great leader must learn to say NO". But if you applying same on engineering and research will kill creativity, create fears, people start loosing enthusiast their mind start getting transform to sheep character. 

Lets take the example of all the top companies that grown and become world top companies from small startup like Google , MS, Apple has used their engineer brains 100%, its not that they have an ideas and build the solution and got popular instead they believe my each individual has unique great mind offered by GOD supper power and I just need to empower them, boost them and they used their ideas, they used their creativities, they welcomed their all initiatives. Instead of saying what to do they just say here is problem, You Mr. Engineer tell me how you want to solve it. Being engineer I can tell you that the moment when Engineers are most happy is when he solve some great problem. His happiness is proportional to problem complexity. Not when he get to know have less work in this quarter or knowing have some easy task to do this week.This is one of major reason engineers quit their employer.

 Are you a leader and leading great engineering mids? never say NO; every time you say NO, DONT DO you are loosing a chance to get one great idea and solution. Instead just empower them ask them why you think this solution work better than others. Give them enough freedom space to feel that they are not just employee for salary and work what they have been given instead they are pillar of organisation they are the creator that will get sold.

I believe thats one of the reason Agile process/ Dev-ops Development technique got more popular and much success than water fall. as in these technique we leave much on developer to take ownership and creativity.

Sometime I feel saying NO is all about limiting yourself and team from growth and fear of failing, fear of jumping on sea.