# Chapter 245

Create very clear intentions for yourself and your people. - Masterminds

This is a wonderful idea and may each of us do this and do this well. First of all create very clear intentions for yourself. Get yourself lined up and in gear. This is your aim, your goal, your resolution, your purpose, your objective, your target and your greatest wish and desire. This is what you exist for, what you were made for and what you want to leave this world having accomplished. Don’t be vague or fuzzy here, this is the place to be very very specific and concise and precise and to have an abundantly clear understanding of what you want and where you are going. This is what it means to create very clear intentions for yourself. Know what and where you are about and what it will look like when done.

If you are the boss and if your people require instructions then please, by all means, do the same for them - provide them with the clearest goals and objectives possible. Then you will be pleased with the results. They may be pleased with the process. If I work for you, then the clearer you can be about where we are going and what I contribute to that process or goal, the better. Provide me with the tools that I need to succeed. My success is your success. However . . .

However, this could easily become a prescription for micromanagement, and we really don’t want to go there. Nothing will deincentivize your team faster than micromanagement. In other words this could be come highly centralized around the one providing the clear intentions because of the insecurity of this person, or highly decentralized because the one providing the clear intentions is letting his people run with it. My experience overwhelmingly points to the decentralized model as superior. You decide.