On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 2:42 AM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 1:21 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
If the research results about qualities of effective managers have been generally consistent for 30 years, then I wonder why so many managers in so many organizations today have mediocre skills in those areas.
I'd hazard a guess that it's because there are more management positions - many, many more - out there in the world then there are stellar managers.
Agreed. I also suspect it's a question of power dynamics; namely, a senior manager is much more able to be bad at their job than an employee first because there are so few good managers that poor quality is the norm, but second because if you have a manager who is terrible, particularly in a non-profit environment, the impact tends to be felt by their employees - i.e. the people with the least power in the situation to do anything about the problem. An incompetent employee, on the other hand, hurts their managers, who do have that power.
I also wonder, in WMF's case, what can be done to ensure that the next ED is robustly skilled in those areas.
This is a good question, hopefully this will be documented during the search.
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