What do we do with our managers?
Leaders need to help their managers become facilitators of team success
The role of managers has been in many peoples’ thoughts lately. As a leader, I have spent a considerable amount of time on it this year, and it has led me to a personal observation, confirmed by discussions with leadership peers.
What senior leaders need managers to do, and how those managers do their jobs, have been transformed. The way we prepare them and change their worldviews, priorities, capabilities and actions is lagging far behind. The people we rely on to make transformations stick are now between a rock and a hard place in terms of being able to achieve their goals.
Through my association with Haier, I heard the story of how the China-based appliance multinational…
