The Art of the Lazy Manager
Lazy gets a bad rap. Managing and managers can be costly to your organization’s productivity (listen to episode 2.1, The Natural Tax of Managing) and in fact less managing can be better! […]
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Can a manager manage better by stepping back and letting teams manage themselves? As strange as this may sound, the answer is yes. Small teams work better when there is less management over them, and this has as much to do with the way ordinary people interact as it does in how managers misalign their abilities with what they expect their job to be. In this episode of The Art of Management, author and management specialist Steve Prentice interviews Jack and in 20 minutes they cover some surprising but highly effective new approaches that managers can take to maximize their teams’ productivity in the new normal.
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