The Changing Face of Management
Business has changed: We have moved from business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C) to Consumer to Consumer(C2C) model. 20 years ago C2C was pretty much limited to a swap meets.
I believe that the face of management has also changed. There is a move from the pure hierarchical model where top-down rules to a more social form of leadership where the followers get to choose who they want to follow.
To me, there is a new social era of management where leadership plays a much larger role than before. This is especially important when working with Millennials.
Here are some key elements:
- put your followers first
- if you put yourself first, they will follow your lead
- listen to your followers
- feedback from your followers is important – listen to it!
- grow your followers
- provide feedback consistantly
- trust your followers
- share information with your followers
- step out of the way and allow your followers to step into the vacuum – enabling you to move into something else