Let’s Redefine the Role of Manager

Most managers today are overwhelmed. Thanks to rapid technological
change, flattening hierarchies, agile work, and new attitudes about
talent, they have to do more than ever. Lynda Gratton, professor at
London Business School and the founder of HSM, points to a few ways
we can solve the problem: by training bosses to be people leaders,
outsourcing some of their mundane management tasks, and even
splitting the role so some oversee work and others focus on talent
development. Gratton is the author of the book Redesigning Work and
coauthor along with Diane Gherson of the HBR article “Managers
Can’t Do It All.”