Comment by mercutio2
8 years ago
You’re not alone in thinking this was advice for managers, many people have said this. But the word manager doesn’t appear in the piece a single time, and I think it’s great advice for individual contributors, so I hope no one editorializes the title this way!
It’s not like only managers can propose slight shifts (desired by the existing team, explicitly in this construction) in process. Unless you’ve got a real jerk of a manager or aren’t doing your base line job well yet, such suggestions, if broached carefully, ought to be welcome.
The world "leader" is used though. While there are certainly non-manager leaders, most members on any given team are not leaders.
"...the natural instinct to push for early impact leads many incoming leaders into challenging relationships..."