The Death of Management
Today Business Insider ran my story around how companies need to rethink how we hire, train and evaluate managers and bosses, and I wanted to take you all a level deeper into where I think this problem truly resides.
In my working life, I have mostly been beset by some of the worst examples of management one could imagine, from executives that manipulated younger male reports to see them as “father figures,” to managers that outright said that not only were they throwing people under the bus, but they’d happily drive it. Management in the average corporation is about compensating someone…