28 May 2008
Managers: Networking or Not Working
“Successful managers spend 70 percent more time networking than their less successful counterparts,” reports the Academy of Management Journal.
Experienced managers know that their individual business silo is worth less without a circle of friends.
Your Business Blogger(R)’s biggest challenge in training of managers is to move the managers’ thinking from that of individual contributor - the one who does the doing - to manager: the one who accomplishes the goals of the organization through the efforts of others.
The best trained managers nurture the support of bosses, internal and external peers and reporting staff to gain discretionary management time.
These managers manage their knowledge and their networks.
The manager must work his network; or he will soon be not working.
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