The Success Of New Managers - 1239 Words

Gain experience. New managers tended to strictly follow rules, because that is how they succeeded as nurses and doctors. However, this was not ideal behavior for a manager. It was precisely their ability to apply their expertise in unique ways to unique situations that brought the most value to their work (Cathcart Greenspan, 2013). Andron stated this another way, â€Å"strictly-regulated organizational cultures will never be creative and innovative, thus, companies nurturing such organizational cultures might not successfully adapt their operations to the dynamic and flexible profile of the modern organizations aiming to success† (2013, p. 189). Instead, the best decisions managers made were based on merging the rules with the wisdom of†¦show more content†¦Instead, managers needed to learn how to take risks, how to think beyond the rules, and how to use their expertise as a platform for innovation. Successful managers learned from failures, examined the reasons, and adjusted for the future (Andonovic et al., 2015). Although practical wisdom develops via experience over time, the learning time can be decreased through exposure to other leaders’ experiences. In other words, new leaders benefitted from hearing stories from existing leaders. Specifically they improved themselves after hearing examples of how other leaders leveraged their experience to handle challenging situations, including working outside the rules (Cathcart Greenspan, 2013). Hearing that this behavior was not only acceptable but desired, and hearing this information at the beginning of their health care leadership careers, could help new managers apply their own practical wisdom sooner. This concept was central in the book Influencer. The New Science of Leading Change which, among other factors, touted the power of storytelling to create change (Grenny, Patterson, Maxfield, McMillan, Switzler, 2013). Maintain expertise in the field. The conventional wisdom in business management was that a good manager can manage any team, that managers did not need to know