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Hello, everyone. Welcome back from the holidays. Today we're talking about management as an

organizational system. Really, we're talking about this concept of managerial style. And I think

everyone that is listening to this podcast right now has heard of this concept. People talk often about their managerial style.

They say they have a managerial style. And it's so common. It's so prevalent. And yet, most managers

and really all professionals don't realize just how erroneous it is. Yeah. To consider the way they

manage to be a style choice. Yeah. They believe it's not just true, but it's a principle that

everybody gets their own style. Absolutely. Everyone thinks, managers think, that they get to decide on how they will manage.

And yet, when we ask them what their style is, they usually really can't describe it,

or can't describe it that specifically anyway, despite spending a huge amount of time actually doing the

things that make up this style, they still can't explain it. Yeah, it's as bad as people saying,

yeah, I don't want my job to change. They think that they can leave their job the same. For

individual contributors, that's one of the biggest miss.

My job doesn't change when, in fact, every time they do that, I say, just hand me your phone and show me all the stuff you do on your phone relative to work. And you're like, yeah, that phone didn't exist 15 years ago. All those apps, they didn't exist. So, yeah, it's changed. but everybody just wants their little nest of a job that never, never changes, while they expect their company to adjust to the changes in the outside world. And that's why oftentimes internally in companies, customers are reviled when in fact, one of the first rules, if not the biggest rule about an organization is customers are everything, closer to the customer,

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