Leadership and Stress in the Workplace

Businesses are focusing on individuals that are either already stressed or managing symptoms of stress once they present. I think the problem is really systemic. Managers become managers because they've been really pretty good at something else. And then suddenly someone says okay we'll have you as a manager because you've done pretty well. The thing about leaders and leadership is that they deal with uncertainty. Strategies are uncertain, there's a trouble for organizations generally speaking are uncertain. So instead of having leaders actually leading we have a load of managers actually managing from the top. Now this causes huge problems in organizations. It starts at the beginning and so what we need to do is to think seriously about management development programs which