Being a great remote leader could be seen as a threat

Sometimes, you go down a path in the research, and you’re certain that you’re onto something. And then, almost out of the blue, you find yourself staring at an article, and you’re completely blown away by what you’re reading. Everything changes, and you find yourself going back to the drawing board, scratching everything out, and starting down a brand new path.

I’ve been sitting here and thinking about landing promotions within leadership in today’s new remote work environment. But it never - and I mean absolutely never - occurred to me that there might be serious resistance within company leadership circles to promote anyone who might be highly skilled in leading remote workforces. 

In fact, showing that you could be a great remote leader could even be seen as a threat to the status of the current leadership team. 

“A large number of managers that had all the right traits to be successful in-person leads are now feeling something is missing as remote leads. Lacking a model to explain this gap and how to fill it, the simplest answer is to just go back to the office — where their leadership isn’t threatened.”

There’s too much here to unpack for one post. I’ll keep you up to speed as I dig into this more. 

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