Posted on 04/21/2022 12:37:31 AM PDT by libh8er
was a manager for 25 years. This is the type of cliched word salad BS that drove me into running my own business.
A manager is supposed to take ideas and input from their whole team? Wow. What a concept.
Me too
And yet the board will bring in “experts” and accept their over paid for often out of context and under qualified (answers we want) over logic that the janitor can see.
THe company I worked for back in 2010 hired a woman to come in to organize the work more efficiently and she did. SHe got a lot of folks laid off and all the work fell on the few remaining.
Experienced that first hand many times, persons that criticize and complain but never offer solutions or take action. When I evaluate and segment my people resources, this group falls into the category ‘Potted Plant.’
Another B-school fad to be adopted by business fashionistas which will destroy more corporations.
Or they could just resist the temptation to micromanage everything.
What a bunch of hooey.
Failed leadership, no matter how “distributed”, is still failed leadership.
MIT FAIL.
(It gives me great pleasure to be able to write that).
I was “one of those experts” for a while. It was internal to the company, but I would travel to different locations to introduce new processes to fix old problems.
99% of the time I would hear how “things are different here.”
Things were not different. They were pretty much the same everywhere. And we could prove it using facts and their own performance statistics.
Fast forward 20 years, I took a job at a company doing a second tier manager’s job. The problems were the same. Except I was not in a “position” to affect the change that was needed.
I hear they just started implementing what I proposed...five year later. After they brought in “consultants.”
The parable of “the prophet in his own land” is very accurate. You want to know what is wrong with a company? Talk to the service agents. They will tell you what is wrong and who is making the mistakes. But very few listen to them.
Distributed leadership is what helped to create corporate cancel culture!
“The younger generations are growing up in a networked world in which they are used to expressing their creativity and autonomy.
Anyone see a problem with the above?
Ages ago a study in the UK concluded the loudest person in an argument wins hands down and no matter how wrong. Shrill is also very effective.
This article is horseshit. How many companies has Debbie run successfully? Leadership is not distributed. Strategic direction is a near dictatorship by a few at the top. Tactical execution is distributed downward and increasingly dispersed with ever decreasing levels of responsibility and accountability.
Not a fan but tell Elon Musk how well distributed leadership works and see what you get back.
There are not enough inspired, motivated and especially intelligent people to share strategic leadership with. Distributed leadership is a slow, cumbersome, wasteful process of listening to, sorting out, coddling and soothing hurt feelings of people suffering from Dunning-Kruger disease. In addition it must involve a lot of clean-up of messes made by ideas that don’t get connections of the entire enterprise. Being able to see the whole picture, the gearing of all the complex relationships of the enterprise at one time is essential to strategic direction and planning and only a few people are capable of seeing and understanding all of this at once.
Distributed leadership, pfffft. Try to win a war with it. I dare you.
This and other similar examples are why I would not waste my money on a big name mba. Really they are only good for connections and credentials to the impressionable.
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