Break Out of Your Managerial Bubble

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🗓️ 16 March 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Hal Gregersen, executive director of the MIT Leadership Center at Sloan School of Management, says too many CEOs and executives are in a bubble, one that shields them from the reality of what’s happening in the world and in their businesses. The higher you rise, the worse it gets. Gregersen discusses practical steps top managers can make to ask better questions, improve the flow of information, and more clearly see what matters. His article “Bursting the CEO Bubble” is in the March-April 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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0:37.0	There's a conundrum common to managers up and down the organization no matter what kind you're in.
0:42.0	From startups to small businesses to nonprofits
0:45.0	to the biggest global corporations.
0:47.0	And that's the blind spots that come with power.
0:50.0	The more say you have in what your organization does, the more that the information you base those decisions on is filtered through other people.
0:59.0	You don't know what you don't know.
1:01.0	And this conundrum is the worst at the top.
1:03.7	CEOs have chiefs of staff, reports that come in daily,
1:07.4	all sorts of layers of curation between the truth of what's happening in the
1:10.8	world and the most powerful person in the company who has to decide
1:14.4	how to respond to it.
1:16.3	Today's CEO is in a bubble and it's time to get out of it, says Hal Gregerson.
1:21.8	He runs the MIT Leadership Center
1:23.7	at Sloan School of Management.
1:25.6	His article bursting the CEO bubble
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