management(5/0)
Leadership failures
Since having my own run-in with a notably horrific manager I’ve made new discoveries about the nature of my manager’s faults. Let’s catalog them here, starting with this link: Disrespectful Employee
Choose leaders over companies
You may have heard the adage, “people leave managers, not businesses.” If this is true, what does it mean for your next job? Through a story with two endings, I’ll demonstrate that this adage means more about your job hunt than your exit strategy. At the beginning of my career I believed, if I honed my skills and lengthened my resume, eventually I’d be hired at one of the star tech companies of my generation.…
Retention depends on management growth
To retain top talent, a business must take more steps than simply hiring them. Exemplary employees want performance feedback, assistance with their career aspirations, recognition and awards, and an emotionally safe work environment. What position holds the greatest influence in a business to realize or thwart these requirements? Managers. Mazin and Smith recite the maxim, “people do not leave their jobs, they leave their bosses ((Smith, pg. 76)).” The opposite holds true, that employees will remain in any job with a great boss.…
Secure managers share their own tools
Managers can be in a world of their own. While common employees do the work assigned them, managers are huddled in rooms making important decisions. Managers have all-day ‘off-site’ meetings to shape the future of the company; common employees meet to plan their week. Common employees are at their desks all day; managers are away from their desks, meeting with one another, reporting to their supervisors, and performing one-on-one meetings with their direct reports.…
Companies need both innovation and maintenance
Leadership Insight: A business requires both managers who invest and managers who maintain. Managers primarily seek to maintain the status quo. The typical manager runs the daily operations for her team, equips her team to accomplish the company’s goals, and aspires to be a senior manager by skill and seniority. For this reason, managers prefer to lead those who have no aspiration of leadership, because those who aspire to more can be disruptive, opinionated, and possibly competition for the senior management slots.…