Four traits for a new generation of management.
by Rick Telberg
If you’re feeling a little shell-shocked from this recession, you’re not alone.
All across the nation, accounting and finance professionals are dealing with the emotional fallout of cutbacks and layoffs, diminished expectations and dashed dreams. If this recession has been about anything, it’s been about failed institutions and failed systems.
But most of all – according to Rex Gatto, Ph.D., a workplace psychologist with a specialty in accounting firms – it has been about failed leadership. Powerful leaders have failed greatly – from Enron to Bear Stearns, Gatto told me.
It will take a new prescription to move forward, according to Gatto. But eventually, people will, indeed, move forward. And it will require a new kind of leadership.
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