Don't Be Sucked In By Player-Coach Leadership!

About this episode

This episode critiques the concept of player-coach leadership and its impact on accountability and performance in organizations.

When CEOs cut management layers, they often kid themselves that they're building leaner, faster companies.  But what they're actually doing is destroying accountability and weakening performance. Hiding behind fads like player-coach leadership can’t change that fact. The tech sector loves a management fad and over the years, they’ve tried them all. But the unquestioning adoption (and eventual discarding) of these management trends doesn’t seem to discourage them from trying the next one that comes along. In this episode, I pull this apart from a few different angles. I look at the fundamental misconceptions that drive fads like player-coach leadership ; I bring you a view from an industry insider; and I give you a practical list of the 5 questions you should ask before you get sucked into the next manager-free fad. Source Material: No Bullsh!t Leadership episodes: Ep.396: How Many Direct Reports is Too Many? Business Insider article: The Most Layoff-Prone Jobs Fortune article: Coinbase Replaced Managers With Player-Coaches LinkedIn profile: Alek Lipski LBT link: Leadership Beyond the Theory ———————— Have you taken our free Leadership Blindspot test ? ✨ In just 5 minutes…

People in this episode

Host: Martin G Moore

Topics covered

• leadership
• management trends
• accountability
• performance
• player-coach leadership

Keywords

• player-coach leadership
• management fads
• accountability
• performance
• leadership trends

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Coinbase, Business Insider, Fortune

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