RE: Leadership and Management - is NOT about decision making or control, is it?

Dale,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dale Emery [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 9:46 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [xpAdoption] Leadership and Management - is NOT about
> decision making or control, is it?
> 
> 
> 
> I may be stuck on something.  I think of a manager as being 
> /primarily/ responsible to the larger organization.  Most of the 
> time, that responsibility is eminently served by enabling the 
> team and removing obstacles.  But in some situations, the manager 
> will not see a way to satisfy that primary responsibility and 
> also do what the team sees as in its interest.  To me it's the 
> possibility of those situations that makes a manager a /manager/, 
> and not some other kind of facilitator.
> 
> That is, if a person's primary responsibility is to the team, 
> that person does not fit my image of manager.  I may need to 
> change my image, but that's the image I have for now.

This raises a very interesting question.  When what the team sees as in its interest is at odds with what the larger organization sees as in its interest, the manager becomes the cheif arbiter.  The expands the scope of the manager beyond ObstacleRemover.  In a way, the manager is the not-so-secret double agent, who needs to represent the team to the organzation, and the organization to the team.

Steve

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