The omniscient manager.
You know: the mastermind, who has the vision, and orchestrates all the pieces in a three-dimensional chessboard, to achieve a magnificent result. They are filled with sage wisdom, far-seeing insight, and a gut instinct that never errs. We watch with awe and aspire to one day be that person.
Might I humbly submit…they don’t exist. Or at least they are as rare as unicorns.
So why are our business structures built on this myth? Why do we have managers, or at least, why are they endowed with powers and expectations that far outstrip a realistic understanding of what they can accomplish? Is it helping, or hurting, to follow this accepted “professional” model?
But what would a world look like without managers anyways? Read more
I fight confusion in working with business owners all over the country. It’s a confusion I’ve fought in the past. That confusion is this: how business owners lead their team and delegate their work. More specifically, business owners seem to think it is necessary that they know everything going on internally with their company, and externally with their customers. It’s shocking when I tell them that there will be more and more things that they do NOT know about in their company as they grow their team. It doesn’t dawn on them that they must lose some Control if they ever want to grow.