As you know, one of my favorite questions for leaders is, “Does it matters who’s sitting in the chair?”
The question helps tease out how well a leader knows who is on the team and what each person brings to the table.
Most leaders look to their organizational charts and each specific job description to describe the make-up of their team. But such a view is only half the picture.
Less than half the picture actually.
How would you evaluate an employee who understood less than half of the issues related to their job? Who didn’t have an in depth knowledge of their firm’s assets?
Negligent? Incompetent? A failure?
Sadly, many leaders not only don’t know who is on their team, but boast of the fact. They call such intentional blindness “maintaining objectivity” and “staying focused on the bottom line.”
It is, in fact, negligence. The most astounding failure in modern business history.
These leaders are making decisions of huge significance without (more…)
