Management Is An Organizational System

What It Covers

Management style is a myth. Managing people functions as an organizational system that requires standardization, not personal preference. Directors and executives possess authority to mandate specific managerial behaviors from their subordinate managers.

Key Questions Answered

• •Organizational Systems Authority: Companies mandate systems like badge wearing, Excel usage, and expense reporting without allowing personal style exceptions. Management of people operates identically as the most critical organizational system binding all others together.
• •Law of Suboptimization: Organizations achieve maximum effectiveness only when individuals and subgroups accept slight suboptimization of their preferences. Allowing each manager their own style suboptimizes the entire organization while optimizing individuals creates collective failure.
• •Role Power Delegation: Managers speak with CEO authority within their area of responsibility. Directors can mandate managerial behaviors like one-on-ones and feedback for subordinate managers, even when the organization hasn't mandated these practices company-wide.
• •Implementation Framework: Establish managerial systems in your area using the same authority the CEO uses organization-wide. Measure subordinate managers on specific behaviors, hold them accountable, and reject claims that different approaches reflect their personal style.