The scarecrow, cowardly lion and tin man are characters in The Wizard of Oz. They are also a caricature of the types of bosses that employees encounter all too often in the workplace. We all have experienced them and hopefully survived them.
(more)Why do most managers have difficultly assessing the potential of their employees? I believe it is because they focus is on the wrong question. In large companies it goes something like this. How much runway does the employee have? Runway is a metaphor for how much potential an employee has to progress to positions of greater responsibility the belief held that the longer the runway the higher the potential.
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