Garbage in results in garbage out. We don t need managers trained to be leaders, coached and trained in many leadership skills, verbal and non-verbal communication tools, only to revert to the hierarchy of the cognitive elite versus the people who get the work done. We don t need more managers going through the motions. We don t need managers to point out our shortcomings. The easiest person to fool is the boss, and the hardest is yourself.
Good leaders lead and good followers follow and good followers know they are good by themselves.
The leader doesn t have to tell them. Nothing could be farther from the truth in my opinion. It is false because the basic compensation system in America is two-tiered. Those in the middle are charged with making sure that those in the bottom tier get very little because they are nothing but disposable labor. The middle sells it s soul to the top tier to maximize personal benefit but, clearly it recognizes that it can never be a part of the top tier.