THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Leaders

"Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right." - James Allen

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Managing multiple bosses

In the movie Office Space — a comedy about work life in a typical 1990s software company — the protagonist, Peter Gibbons, has eight different bosses. All of them, seemingly unaware of each other, pass by his desk and tell him what to do. While the film is most certainly a satire, for some, it is not far from the truth. More and more people report to more than one boss and learning to handle multiple managers is an essential skill in today's complex organizations.

What the Experts Say-

According to Robert Sutton, a professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University and the author of Good Boss, Bad Boss, it is extremely common these days to have more than one boss. "As you to go to a matrixed structure, you can easily have between one and seven immediate supervisors," he says.

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