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Creating Leaders: Breaking Free from Middle Management Culture | SDR #307

10 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Chris Collins argues that prevalent middle-management norms prioritize being liked and validated by one's manager rather than exercising leadership. He emphasizes the need to recruit the right people and hold them to standards, contrasting a validation-seeking culture with a standards-driven leadership approach. (Transcript excerpt provided.)

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What is interesting and what we get to see a lot is that in a world where most people are middle managers, they're not leaders, the culture is very much about being validated and pleased by the manager. So we want everybody to like us. We want everybody to be okay. And we don't. We don't have the wherewithal to understand that we have to go out and recruit the right people and hold people to a certain standard.