Management positions are no longer the stuff of dreams. Is it because we were misled about what they really entail? I explored this in a recent paper in Organizational Dynamics, suggesting that maybe we need to rework how we think about people management.
Our era has an ambivalent relationship with leaders. The classic middle manager role is no longer as desirable. Even the idea of “leadership” raises suspicion due to its negative associations: In the world of work, it conjures images of Silicon Valley’s excesses, of workers as cogs in a wheel, of hypocritical political leaders.
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