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There's no one-size-fits-all management style. Evil megalomaniacs can also have success. It's good to have humility, but that's true for individual contributor
by ordinaryperson 8y ago
There's no one-size-fits-all management style. Evil megalomaniacs can also have success.
It's good to have humility, but that's true for individual contributors, not just leaders.
As you point out, if a leader is too humble, at especially at Big Corp Inc, products can end up designed by committee, an ugly Mr. Potato Head that everyone hates.
It'd be nice if success required 1-3 specific personality traits but they can't be correlated exactly. But this kind of "If you do/have X, you will succeed" articles will probably always be popular.
- lazyjones 8y ago> There's no one-size-fits-all management style. I guess someone has to tell the Agile people, who are obsessed with rules and formalisms, about this. Leaders need experience to cope with different situations. If a team wants a good leader, it should choose him/her based on his/her successful projects instead of relying on FotM Agile concepts and the candidate‘s willingness to adopt them.
- ordinaryperson 8y agoObsessing over any rule pattern, whether it's Agile, Lean, Waterfall, etc., is, of course, stupid. Those patterns are designed to help groups work together more efficiently, not lord over them like the gods of Olympus. Assuming you've already explained your frustration to your manager, might be time to seek a new opportunity...