Re:Ask HN: Who has had a great Engineering manager?
by rubidium on Friday July 27, 2018 @09:47AM
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Chances are your leadership style matches certain employees but not other ones.
There's a nice little theory (always messier in practice) around situational leadership by Blanchard and Hersey. 4 different leadership styles are needed to match employees in 4 different "states". Exceptional managers are able to match their style to their employees state. "Just good" managers usually default to 2 of the styles, and so don't always to well. Bad managers are either incomptent, or only use 1 style of management that mis-matches their team.
There's a nice little theory (always messier in practice) around situational leadership by Blanchard and Hersey. 4 different leadership styles are needed to match employees in 4 different "states". Exceptional managers are able to match their style to their employees state. "Just good" managers usually default to 2 of the styles, and so don't always to well. Bad managers are either incomptent, or only use 1 style of management that mis-matches their team.
Check out https://online.stu.edu/articles/education/what-is-situationa... for more info.