{"id":1104,"date":"2018-08-10T02:15:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T02:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2018-08-10T02:18:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T02:18:37","slug":"directors-too-should-not-be-afraid-of-having-their-views-ideas-constructively-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/rwc-blog\/directors-too-should-not-be-afraid-of-having-their-views-ideas-constructively-challenged\/","title":{"rendered":"Directors Too Should Not Be Afraid of Having Their Views\/ Ideas Constructively Challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"

Be aware of companies that look to appoint “yes I will CEO’s\/ GM’s” to deliver agreed strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why ? I have found that directors will tend to appoint such highly agreeable senior managers when directors don’t wish to have their views\/ ideas challenged. And it is often these organisations that have the most toxic cultures of all – pretty much dictatorships.<\/span><\/p>\n

Directors who avoid appointing strong-minded senior managers, often show themselves to be people who think that they have all the right\/ best ideas within themselves. With this mindset, such directors tend to issue directives<\/strong> to the senior manager, rather than invite the input of the senior manager into their governance decision-making activities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My best advice, based on first-hand experience, is avoid taking-up a senior management role in an organisation where directors demonstrate the above traits. It is better (more rewarding) to work with a Board that has an “inclusive” mind-set…one which values and invites the input of their senior manager.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And a word of caution to directors who possess a mindset of the sort described above; you will be unlikely to retain highly competent senior managers if you continue to dictate your decisions to them without involving them in your decision-making processes. And should this eventuate, you will then need to consider who is going to be your spokesperson to your shareholders ?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Be aware of companies that look to appoint “yes I will CEO’s\/ GM’s” to deliver agreed strategy. Why ? I have found that directors will tend to appoint such highly agreeable senior managers when directors don’t wish to have their views\/ ideas challenged. And it is often these organisations that have the most toxic cultures of all – pretty much dictatorships. Directors who avoid appointing strong-minded senior managers, often show themselves to be people who think that they have all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}