
108 • Program Management in Defense and High Tech Environments
is tolerated, if not even expected. However, if you are raised in an
environment that promotes personal responsibility, then cultures that expect
personal responsibility will be effective.
But the senior manager has the responsibility to go beyond “tolerating”
more eective leadership styles—for example, she has the responsibility
to coach her under-managers to use those more eective styles. at’s
why I consider this comment only semi-enlightened. As leaders we have
the responsibility to help others do their jobs more eectively, and this
expressly includes other leaders who r ...