How will you explain this statement?
when the team fails, it’s the leader’s fault due to poor management on his or her part.
it is the leader’s responsibility to ensure that the team’s mission is understood by all parties involved and that’s accomplished by communicating on a regular basis w/ your team. regular contact keeps the leader informed and able to clear up misunderstandings in a timely manner.
if the leader isn’t clear in his or communications then the message is garbled on it’s way down the line. If the leader chooses support staff poorly then that is on the leader as well.
February 27th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
when the team fails, it’s the leader’s fault due to poor management on his or her part.
it is the leader’s responsibility to ensure that the team’s mission is understood by all parties involved and that’s accomplished by communicating on a regular basis w/ your team. regular contact keeps the leader informed and able to clear up misunderstandings in a timely manner.
if the leader isn’t clear in his or communications then the message is garbled on it’s way down the line. If the leader chooses support staff poorly then that is on the leader as well.
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February 27th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
You can see that two ways–in terms of who is responsible for a particular communication, or who is the manager/director that is generally responsible for the actions of the department.
At the bottom of a letter, there are usually initials that indicate the chain of responsibility for that communication. Normally, the last person referenced there was the typist/preparer, and has responsibility for the formatting and visual presentation, but not for content. The person just before that is normally the author–the person who actually wrote the original document. Often that person is a lower level manager, so for the letter to have authority, it will be reviewed by and perhaps signed by a higher-ranking manager, director, or someone even higher on the org chart, and that person will have their initials at the front of that list. If that director signed the document, he is obviously responsible for it whether he read it first or not. If he didn’t sign it but lent his authority to someone else to get the message out for him, he has delegated that responsibility, but remains responsible himself.
In a more general way, the buck stops somewhere. If you are in charge of a department, keeping tabs on what your employees are doing is a big part of your job. You should have given them instructions on what they are allowed to deal with on their own, and what types of issues require your input or approval. If they made an error, you either allowed it or should have made it clear that they can’t make that call and need to talk to you. People who go around you should be fired, especially if it happens often. So, if you have someone working under you who officially does something stupid, it’s still on you–you were in charge of that guy.
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