Elastic Leadership

Chapter 10. The Line Manager Manifesto

This chapter covers

• Principles of leadership from a line manager’s perspective
• Working with teams suffering from a lack of good leadership
• Working with individuals suffering from indifferent leadership

If you’re a line manager, maybe some of the things in the Team Leader Manifesto in chapter 1 didn’t make sense to you. You don’t exactly have a “team.” Your team might be spread out, providing services to multiple unrelated projects (particularly in a matrix organization, where your direct lead isn’t your hiring manager) or even multiple customers (if your employees are consultants).

Does that mean that now all you get to do is “push paper” and sign budgets? When I became a director I hoped not, but ...