Executive Focus: Managing Your Managers When Things Go Wrong

¥ Dealing with various management styles.”Leaders should be comfortable allowing their subordinate managers to develop their own styles of dealing with different situations as long as the results are similar,” note Simpson and McClowry. A diverse set of management approaches within a company can be invaluable, and different personality types often relate to varied management styles. However, leaders should discourage extreme diversity in managing employees, as this can lead to friction between departments, write the authors. “For example, a leader who gets the same results by intimidation will not be as preferred as the more inspiring/supportive manager,” they note.