Are Manager’s Obsolete?

By |2015-11-10T14:55:17-05:00November 14, 2013|Book Reviews, Employees, Managers, Programs, Sr. Leadership|Comments Off on Are Manager’s Obsolete?

Managers play a key role when it comes to employee engagement.  In fact, it is well documented that the main reason employees voluntarily leave their jobs is not because of the company or their work – it’s because of their manager. Why are managers driving employees away?  One answer might be The Peter Principle.  In their book, The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong, Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull state that “in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” Basically, people grow within an organization to the point where they are promoted into [...]