Now is The Time for Management to Change

While the world's workplace has been going through extraordinary historic change, the practice of management has been stuck in time for more than 30 years. 

The practice of management has fallen behind how people work, live and want to experience their lives. We need to adapt.

This time, the defects that need to be eliminated aren’t failures in processes but failures in maximizing human potential.

The solution lies in aligning the practice of management with the new will of the world’s workers. The great American dream has changed. So has the great global dream. What the world wants is a good job. This is the new will of the world.

Now in America and around the world, the great global dream is to have a good job. This is one of Gallup’s biggest and most surprising discoveries ever. Family, children, owning a home and peace are still important, but they are lower priority.

Of all the codes Gallup has been asked to crack dating back 80 years to founder George Gallup, the single most profound, distinct and clarifying finding - ever -is probably this one: 70% of the variance in team engagement is determined solely by the manger.

When you have great managers who can maximize the potential of every team member, you have delivered on the new global will: a great job and a great life.

This is the future of work.

Excerpts from the introduction from Gallup’s IT’S THE MANAGER.