These are all leadership solves. Not process solves, not spending solves. Leadership. It's ironic that consultancies like BCG – who are masters of technocratic administration, would post this!
Innovation excellence is great.
Technical excellence is great.
You also need soft-skills excellence; People who can find the right mix of skills, resources, and motivation. This is an actual specialty, and though it be steeped in the 'soft' sciences, a bleak reality of getting humans into groups to achieve a common goal. When it works well, you get the A-Team. When it doesn't you get Game of Thrones.
The funny/ironic thing is, all those items tend to be the first to go when management experiences personal burn-out themselves. I wonder how much burn-out is transferred downwards due to this phenomena.
The highest rate of psychopathy I've experienced was amongst technologists thrust into leadership positions; they believe that people are tools, and thus reduce them to numbers, that everything can be operationalized and optimized, including the human mind.
It's a spiderman-pointing-meme. Workers blame management who blame workers ad infinitum.
Both workers and managers need to understand how to break that cycle and it's through leadership – which isn't something that is correlated with altitude in the org chart.
- Senior managerial support
- Psychological safety with direct manager
- Fair and equal opportunity for success
These are all leadership solves. Not process solves, not spending solves. Leadership. It's ironic that consultancies like BCG – who are masters of technocratic administration, would post this!
Innovation excellence is great.
Technical excellence is great.
You also need soft-skills excellence; People who can find the right mix of skills, resources, and motivation. This is an actual specialty, and though it be steeped in the 'soft' sciences, a bleak reality of getting humans into groups to achieve a common goal. When it works well, you get the A-Team. When it doesn't you get Game of Thrones.