Bury My Heart in Conference Room B: The Unbeatable Impact of Truly Committed Managers

The key to a company’s success is the emotional investment of managers, and the key source of emotional commitment is the ability to use your core values at work. Yet a manager’s job description often requires subordination or compromise from these values: what the company wants done and how it wants it done takes precedence over personal preferences. As a result most managers are in a constant state of emotional detachment, and when there is a deep divide between how someone wants to manage and who they have to be as a manager, all hope of emotional commitment (and corporate profitability) is lost. We must find a way to make a job into a mechanism that fulfills our deepest values, thereby making ourselves and our company more successful.