Today’s Story
My good friend Keith Fuller, a leadership consultant in the computer games industry, wrote a powerful post with several excellent questions about leadership.
Action Point
Today let’s take a look at one of the questions he asked:
- Is leadership the default career path?
In your organization, when someone wants more pay, do they have to lead others?
Is the only way for
- your accountants
- your developers
- your attorneys
- your salespeople
to move ahead to go from being an individual contributor to a manager of individual contributors?
If you take an engineer and you want to turn him into a leader in an organization you can’t just assume that you promote them and they will learn over time how to become a leader. Some of them will. The vast majority won’t.
—Dr. Peter Bamberger,
professor of Organizational Behavior &
HR Development, Tel Aviv University
Going deeper
- Read Keith’s article
- Check out the book First Break All The Rules
One Final Thought
What if you made a plan to allow your best and your brightest to add more value to the organization and be more highly compensated without requiring them to move into “management?”
What would that look like? Drop me an email at tom@BrightHillGroup.com
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