People can provide a competitive advantage only if they are both well led and well managed.
—Edward Lawler III
On Leadership
Fifty years ago, managers were put in the position to manage the employees of the organization because of what or who they knew; their social status or technical ability was a precursor to achieving promotion to a managerial position. Everyone who entered an organization knew that if they worked hard enough, got on with the right people, and stuck around long enough, eventually they too would be promoted and would achieve the title of manager. The world has moved on, but it would seem that the expectation that at some point everyone is able to get promoted to be in “the management” hasn’t. The ...
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