Absentee leadership

Absentee leadership

Jim Whitehurst Jim Whitehurst

Jim Whitehurst

Managing Director at Silver Lake, Executive Chair at Unity

发布日期: 2021年6月3日
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An article from the Harvard Business Review about absentee leadership got me thinking - as leaders, our job is to be a catalyst to action for our teams. Hear what I mean and let me know what you think below.

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Emilio Patricio Gómez

IT Strategist | Innovation & Digital Transformation | CIO | CTO | IT Director | IT Service Delivery Director | ITIL? | SCRUM? | Ciberserguridad

3 年

Great advice Jim, however I believe that the most incompetent leader is the one who does not leave micromanagement, even despite having hired high-level personnel, Regards

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Mark Lu

CEO at SATORO PTE. LTD.

3 年

Cool

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Mehmet Nuri Bildirici

yeminli frans?zca mütercim tercüman ?irketinde frelance (serbest) pozisyonunda

3 年

hi jim I've got a problem in my sistem ,so that I responde you lately, I beg your pardon. As my comment, a leadership does'nt mean to showing off but giving them latitude,and tolesans, but when things go wrong, they must set of guadrails for people to do their best work. thanks very much.

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Firas Yasin, PMP

Global Alliances Manager, Hybrid Cloud Security at Red Hat

3 年

Jim Whitehurst?well said , the analogy of catalyst and guard rail is a great way to reflect on a great leadership lesson.

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Brendan Coffey

Helping Clients Modernize their Mainframe environment

3 年

Bob, make the news, not report it….love it

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