By Sally McCutchion and originally published on medium.com
I’ve been working in and around the area of self-management for about 10 years now.
Overall, this management philosophy has a lot to offer but one of the things that bugs me the most about it is how it inadvertently implies there’s no longer a place for leadership.
Some of the other mistruths around self-management are:
You should now be able to resolve all of your own barriers and challenges, effectively working in isolation
Self-Management itself will resolve all your business challenges
The skills and qualities of your brightest leaders should be dumbed down
Any limitations caused by various interpersonal dynamics will dissolve
You will no longer need to invest in your leadership
The truth is that shifting beyond hierarchy is a more nuanced path that the term ‘self-management’ implies…
And leadership has never been more important.[…]
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