Managing for Growth Means Pulling from the Past, Learning from the Present, and Anticipating the Future

The role of a manager or executive comes with a myriad of responsibilities. Some of the more traditional roles of a manager or business executive can include balancing due dates for parts of a project, helping employees feel adequately trained for their role, and even being in charge of the company’s image.

These and other elements of managerial and executive roles may stay the same for years, but just as many roles and responsibilities are evolving with the times. In everything, from a shift to remote and hybrid work environments to accelerating digital disruptions that transform whole departments and organizations, change is the only constant.

If you are a manager, how would you write your job description today compared to day one? Do you find yourself still listing the same tasks even though you know they have gotten far more dynamic than before? Change has already begun, so how do you as a manager or executive evolve?

Has The Role Or The Mindset Of A Manager Stagnated?

Mindset is everything in the professional world, and thinking in only a legacy way is no longer useful. Many managers, executives, and even seasoned CEOs that I meet regularly all seem to be…