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I was at a conference and sitting in an open space about leadership when I came to an epiphany: 'You hear of organisations that are management heavy all the tim
by mrmondo 11y ago
I was at a conference and sitting in an open space about leadership when I came to an epiphany: 'You hear of organisations that are management heavy all the time, but you never hear of organisations being leadership heavy'.
- shostack 11y agoI worked in a place that became leadership heavy. They gradually were losing business and kept bringing in more executive-level "heavy hitters" to hopefully turn things around. In reality what happened was that every one of them that was hired was made to think they were the silver bullet and now that they were there, everything would turn around, as long as we did things their way. Well, you get a few executives on board who are in theory all on the "same level", all thinking they are the silver bullet, and all thinking that things need to be done their way and you can imagine the epic power struggles that ensued. Did not end well.