You Have No Idea What I’m Doing…Do You?
Yet again, Dilbert, our arbiter of truth, uncovers another fact of Corporate America. Jobs have become so unfocused and directionless that managers rarely understand what employees are doing on a daily basis. Wondering in the weeds between micro-managing and mis-managing, America’s corporate culture is waiting for those rare individuals who can rise above the title of manager and become leaders. But to become a leader in the world of today, managers must first harness the ability to quickly gather and filter enormous amounts of information in order to make intelligent decisions.
Unfortunately, the focus in Corporate America on training managers to filter information is sorely lacking. The change is starting to take shape as employees who realize this need for change start working their way up through the corporate ladder. As they unseat the old style managers, the American corporate culture will undergo another change, one that will most certainly start refocusing on specialization. However, there will be an interesting distinction from the past. Managers will lead a group of employees who have varied areas of specialization and will learn to harness the opportunities of the Web 2.0 Era.
Managing Human Capital in the 2.0 Era by Courtney Shelton Hunt
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