Intel To Lay Off 1,000 Managers
July 25th, 2006That’s the headline from a WSJ article about a week ago. Surely every other business periodical carried a similar one.
Intel specifically cited “slowed decision making” in their decision to target mid-level managers.
There is a global shakeout among managers coming. Reduced pricing leverage, commodity supply constraints, the merging of the corporate and nation-state worlds, and the flattening world all mean more competition. That means tighter margins, and more attention to costs. Labor is always “Cost One”. And managers are mistakenly seen as an easy solution.
Luckily for some, at the same time, effective managers wil be prized and recruited away not for their technical skills or pedigree, but for their ability to set and meet tough goals by creating and motivating teams of professionals to achieve beyond their day to day abilities.
Because the single biggest influence on competitiveness is human performance, and effective managers are the single biggest influence on human performance.
Once again, it’s all about people. The differentiator is effectiveness.
What are you doing to improve your performance, and your team’s?
How are you investing in being effective?
Attention must be paid.
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