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Originally Posted by 84porsche
This is one of the hardest things for me because being younger than most in management, I am viewed as not having enough experience. I want more people to take the bull by the horns so to speak but they never do and its frustrating. Somehow they got into the leadership positions but don't lead once they are there. They try to just keep their jobs and not step on toes. I am a lousy follower, I prefer to do something even if it turns out to be incorrect.
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Incorrect can have drastic consequences. Thankfully the less responsibility you have the less likely those consequences will cause irreparable harm.
Some of what you see is not necessarily apathy but is actually the result of more experience.
As you move up the chain you become more exposed to the nitty gritty details of what is really going on in the business. The bigger picture if you will.
You start by managing people, then groups, then depts, then entire business units etc...
As your responsibility grows it starts to shift to be more corp wide.
You start to understand how sometimes good decisions for your group can have a negative impact on other business units or the corp as a whole.
You have also learned when is "the right time". A lot of business decisions will "evolve" over time. Decisions and action before the picture comes into focus is wasted effort. You need to manage time and resources and nothing sucks more than expending them at the wrong time.
Politics start to come into heavy play. "Horestrading" starts to happen, take a hit for me on this and I'll make that other thing happen for you.
I used to think the same way as you do now.
Then one day many years later I found myself listening to younger staff express the same frustration.
That's when I realized that I had become "my parents".
When I was 16 I thought I knew everything and that they were out of touch when it was really me that knew nothing and they were as wise as their years.