Great Manager Newsletter - March 26, 2025
Managers Can't Do It All
On this date in 1953, Jonas Salk announced he had successfully tested a vaccine for polio. This led to polio being almost totally eradicated in the world.
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1 Big Thing
Managers Can’t Do It All
In recent decades sweeping reengineering, digitization, and agile initiatives—and lately the move to remote work—have dramatically transformed the job of managers. Change has come along three dimensions: power, skills, and structure. Managers now have to think about making their teams successful, rather than being served by them; coach performance, not oversee tasks; and lead in rapidly changing, more-fluid environments. These shifts have piled more responsibilities onto managers and required them to demonstrate new capabilities.Research shows that most managers are struggling to keep up. A crisis is looming, say Gherson, a former corporate chief human resources officer, and Gratton, a London Business School professor.
Watch This
Why Meetings Suck and How to Fix Them
Meetings often drain our joy and sap our focus-–and meeting overload kills productivity. So why do we have so many of them– and is a better world possible? Adam investigates the science of improving meetings and explores how workplaces are fighting meeting bloat.
By the Numbers
37%
37% of CEOs think that empathy has no place in the workplace. I can’t comprehend the stupidity of that 37%.
FYI - that corresponds to those employees thinking that workplace is toxic.
Words of Wisdom
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
― Ralph Nader
Business Laughs
Discussion Topics
In what ways do you empower youre team members to take on more responsibilities?
No big plans for me - except to keep plugging along and waiting for the real spring to hit the Midwest.
Have a great week. Be a great manager.