People Don't Leave Bad Organizations. People Leave Bad Managers!
René Jones - April 28, 2006

Introduction

Have you noticed that everybody and her mother is talking about how to be a good leader? Books such as Leadership Styles and Strategies, The 21 Century Supervisor, and 9 Natural Laws of Leadership are just the three of 3,048,203 search results that MSN returned when I searched leadership books. But when I searched for "how to be a good follower" the search engine returned 3,219 of which many were martial arts and religious sites! Sound leadership involves nurturing employees to excel in their abilities and create a functionally, competitive, and profitable work environment. Often, companies nurture employee skills by continuing education and training. Encouraging employees to take courses to improve project management skills or to learn the latest version of office software is great and companies will certainly benefit from a technologically savvy workforce, but this type of training isn't applicable to every area of the company...