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Nov 2019
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Why “Connector” Managers Build Better Ta...

Harvard Business Review
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Sari Wilde, a managing vice president at Gartner, studied 5,000 managers and identified four different types of leaders. The surprising result is that the “always on” manager is less effective at developing employees, even though many companies encourage supervisors to give constant feedback. Instead, the “connector” manager is the most effective, because th ... Show More
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