How Managers Should Spend Their Time

Everyone agrees that professional groups need to be led by a player coach or a producer manager. But the balance between those roles is not always agreed even with in firms or within the group themselves. In most firms the emphasis is on the player or the producer role meaning that the main job that's taken seriously is to serve the clients and get out and get revenues. The coaching or the managing is very often neglected. I think this is a very bad economic choice for most firms, as you will see in the following discussion.