Love it or hate it, you have to admit Facebook is a successful company. Certainly one of the reasons for the company’s unusual success is in their approach to people and the work they do. Rather than rigidly define career paths through the management ranks, they believe people don’t have to be managers to be successful.
Certainly identifying what people excel at and allowing them to grow in their niche is a novel approach for most businesses. It also allows Facebook to identify people who truly want to be managers rather than select from those who see management as the only alternative if they want to grow their careers even though they aren’t necessarily cut out for leadership roles.
Facebook recently did a company wide analysis to identify the teams that reported the highest levels of satisfaction and engagement. Starting with a sample of all 12,000 Facebook employees their results are likely to have widespread validity.
This article lists 7 common behaviors that characterized the top performing managers.
While this is obviously interesting to people hiring managers, it also can be a checklist for employees consider a new job, and the boss that comes with it.