If you think it is difficult to find an employee, try to find a good manager. While vacancies for ordinary employees and leading specialists can be filled in a few weeks, it takes months to find worthy managers.
Of course, many companies prefer to develop their own managers rather than hire from outside. Depending on the structure and culture of the company, this can have devastating consequences. But even such conservative companies sometimes face the need to find an outside manager.
And this is all understandable, because... A mistake when choosing the wrong candidate for the role of manager can be very costly for the company, for example, the collapse of a strategic project or the closure of an entire direction. Everything will depend on the level of the position held.
In addition, TOP level managers must fit into the “world picture” of the company, i.e. potentially be ready to convey the corporate culture, values, mission, etc. through yourself to your subordinates.
This is why experts advise paying attention to leaders who were born in the USSR, but spent the main conscious part of their lives in Russia. These are managers 33-40 years old.
B article highlight that these people have an innate focus on achieving results, they think product-wise and additionally:
- have a mathematics or IT background.
- often have several higher educations.
- they are responsible and creative.
- know how to assemble the necessary teams and implement projects.
- is not offended by the whole world and does not teach everyone around how to live.
Disadvantages include a tendency to conformism and the inability to speak the truth face to face.
Of course there are exceptions, but the generation that survived regime change, 5 financial crises and the 90s will no longer exist. These people know how to ignite the Zetas, and not everyone is capable of this, which is why such leaders are hired for startups and for the development of key areas.
You can rely on them, confidently delegate a strategic task and passively check its implementation. For such people, a task is a task that must be solved within a set time frame, really, but how could it be otherwise?