For a message board populated by generally speaking young middle-aged posters on the lower end of the board demographic, I can't help but point out the differences in approaches and perspectives is sort of breaking along generational lines.
10 years ago you'd have management and leadership books from 20 or 15 years ago being updated or released with new material about leading Millennials in the work force. As Millennials enter middle age, and within the corporate world join Gen X in leadership roles, I do think we're ripe for a further extension of the broadening changes in approach.
12 years ago I was in a management role, that I probably wasn't prepared for, and the folks I reported to pointed out how my approach was so much older than my years. Which they appreciated, but I had to learn to build more intentional relationships with my staff, who were closer to me in age. Fast forward to now, in a new industry that I've been in 8 years, and my approach is a further evolution of what I was learning back then, except I find it easier for me to advocate for change and am confident in my approach being adopted by leadership than ever before. The difference being my manager is my age, and our (interim) director is a Gen Xer following the Boomer that retired.
Anyway, only tangentially on topic. But I don't think folks saying Sutter isn't a coach in the modern Zeitgeist are saying he's garbage. He's not. He's a HOF. Its just things change. And good leaders/managers recognize that an adapt.
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