How Much Office Time to Require of Staff

Treat it as a leadership style, not the leadership style. Micromanage the expectations, not the activity. If a department is succeeding, don't ask how many hours someone spent in the office. If it isn't, that's when you look at how they're spending their time.

Giving people offices can tempt them to sit in them, call themselves busy, and go a whole week without talking to a single person, working 40 hours while losing the hustle. We're in the people business, and most people aren't even available nine to five because they're at work. So tell staff to get necessary office work and meetings done, but not too much, because you need their nights and weekends.

Ministry schedules run opposite everyone else's. Saturday is preparation and Sunday is the Super Bowl, so no weekend is really a day off. A practical answer that works well: require office time on the one day you're there yourself, so you can meet with your team and check on things.