I came across a post entitled—Stop treating managers like the bad guy, by Sander Dur. And here’s a LinkedIn thread that contains some interesting reactions to it. 

I’ve written on this topic several times as I believe there’s a significant anti-pattern in the agile universe where we treat managers poorly. Largely by the same folks who claim the managers are treating them poorly. So, reciprocal disrespectful behavior.

Here are two of those articles:

In fact, I believe this is one of the primary factors that have served to drag down agile transformations. Serving as a blaming, disrespectful, and braking function that inhibits learning, growth, and forward progress.

One of my hopes for our agile future is that—

  • Leaders & managers develop into the agile leaders we need for tomorrow’s high-performance organizations and

  • Teams meet them where they are, take responsibility for their parts, and partner to create those organizations.

Well, one can hope!

Stay agile my friends,

Bob.

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