Max’s Note: As part of our quest to post more and more often, I’m proud to present this guest post by Sammi Nuttall.
According to a new survey completed by Korn/Ferry International, nearly 73% of executive level employees believed that they could outperform their manager. Surprisingly, 42% of those surveyed also believed that their boss was doing an “excellent” or “above average” job.
That’s an interesting contradiction.
One interpretation is that employees, even at the top levels, are not leveraging all they have to offer their employers – and as a result are feeling somewhat less than challenged. This puts the onus on managers and strategic HR groups to understand who their high potentials are and to discover and cultivate their strengths. It’s only by developing employees that their full potential can be released, and if you can do that – the sky’s the limit.
August 4th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
While I don’t disagree with the overall premise of this post, it should not go unnoticed that most executives tend to either overestimate their abilities or their commitment (sometimes both). Pride and ego often come into play when conducting self-assessments. There are always performance gains that can be achieved at any level within any organization. The question is how to achieve consistent, enterprise wide performance gains. As pointed out in your post the answer lies in the ever elusive task of developing talent to its full potential…
April 11th, 2008 at 12:10 am
Sometimes it is easy to look at a job from a distance when you are not doing it and think it is easy and that you can do better. Maybe the only way for individuals to find out is to step up to the next level and find out for themselves.