The 10:1 Managerial Ratio

I got it from <a href="http://artpetty.com/2015/11/29/leadership-caffeine-are-you-driving-your-team-bananas/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">this post</a> by my man Art Petty, where he talks about being a hyper-rooster manager. What’s a hyper-rooster? Glad you asked: <blockquote> These over-caffeinated and self-anointed drivers of productivity falsely believe that constant pushing and oversight followed by more pushing are all essential. They subscribe to an old model of motivation — one that depended upon unwavering immersion in the act of “supervising” the work of others. The underlying belief is that people who are watched and/or, who are constantly goaded into action actually outperform those left to their own designs. </blockquote> This is kind of the essential problem of most workplaces — bad managers and how they get that way — and it all comes from the base idea that <a href="http://bit.ly/1M1FkSl" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">management isn’t actually intuitive</a>; namely, the things that got you elevated are things you should care much less about now that you’re a manager. Hyper-rooster managers focused on tasks, deliverables, targets, projects, and the sanctity of hierarchy create a number of problems for organizations, namely: <a href="https://tedbauer.medium.com/the-10-1-managerial-ratio-3ebefed3d276">Read More</a>