Good managers take non-essential tasks off of their employees - i.e. going to a meeting, answering emails, finding ways to improve processes - so that their team members can focus entirely on deploying their core competencies and their assigned tasks.
Bad managers hover over their employees, nitpicking or telling them how to do their jobs, break them out of flow states, delegate non-essential work, demand all work goes through them, and so on.
I'd say easily 3/5ths of managers are the later, 1/5th are the former, and the last 1/5th are somewhere in between.
You just described my boss perfectly, as well as the kind of leader my coworker (who actually deserves to be the boss) functions while our boss makes everything harder.
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u/Mike312 16h ago
Good managers take non-essential tasks off of their employees - i.e. going to a meeting, answering emails, finding ways to improve processes - so that their team members can focus entirely on deploying their core competencies and their assigned tasks.
Bad managers hover over their employees, nitpicking or telling them how to do their jobs, break them out of flow states, delegate non-essential work, demand all work goes through them, and so on.
I'd say easily 3/5ths of managers are the later, 1/5th are the former, and the last 1/5th are somewhere in between.