[acatnamedjoe]

"Regarding the complaint of not moving decisions forward with a disengaged manager, if you plan to be absentee you must delegate"

I took the OPs point on this to be that, at a certain level of seniority, delegation isn't enough.

I.e. lots of decisions will require consensus with ones peers to actually implement. And when you don't have active engagement and coordination from the level above:

1) peer consensus can take a lot more time and energy to achieve.

And 2) you can often end up with a compromise solution that's the worst of all options, because nobody has the authority to say - "we're doing it this way".

In general, I get the sense that at more senior levels management becomes much more about managing conflict between subordinates rather than managing individual activities. I think the article was written from that perspective.

[Scarblac]

Wow, you described my workplace exactly in a way I never considered it, thanks!