Saving Time and Effort: The Lazy Way to Leadership

As a leader, if you've looked around you and wondered why some leaders seem to have all the time in the world, while you're feeling stressed and under the hammer, perhaps you need to lead the lazy way instead.

The Oxford University Press defines Lazy as:

1. Unwilling to work or use energy.
2. Showing or characterized by a lack of effort or care.

Both of these are very good definitions of what the lazy leader should be; unwilling to expend useless energy and characterised by a lack of effort. Unfortunately, the definition is somewhat limited in vision for true leadership.

As a lazy leader myself, I often have a basic desire to sit back and relax. Now I could just stop