Totally. Good managers should be engaged enough with their team’s work that they understand the team’s input and be capable of covering for one of them if they are out.
If the new people see that the top managers don’t listen to the old hands, the new people will ignore them too. Now you’ve got rookies teaching each other to make rookie mistakes.
“Institutional knowledge” is a dirty word to a lot of top managers.
It means that they would have to talk to lower level folks as equals. That they would have to rethink their plans.
It’s much easier for them to do some team building exercises instead.
Totally. Good managers should be engaged enough with their team’s work that they understand the team’s input and be capable of covering for one of them if they are out.
Another thing.
If the new people see that the top managers don’t listen to the old hands, the new people will ignore them too. Now you’ve got rookies teaching each other to make rookie mistakes.