ManagementSpeak: Great idea. Put together a meeting to get everyone on board.
Translation: I don’t like your idea, but I’d rather let a room full of naysayers shoot it down than tell you directly.
Alan Earnshaw joins the KJR Club by providing a terrific alternative to the translation of last week’s ManagementSpeak.
What if the CEO had no authority?
Take it a step further: What if you had no authority either? Same job, same responsibilities. You gauge success the same way you gauge it today. The only difference is that you can’t exert your authority and make it stick.
How much would change? Very little, I hope. Those who frequently rely on their authority to make decisions and make them stick are “leading” (in quotes because they aren’t leading in any meaningful sense of the term) a dispirited collection of unmotivated second-raters whose hearts aren’t in their work and heads aren’t in the game.
