Superinvestor Warren Buffett once observed that more money doesn't change people so much as amplify their essential traits. "Of the billionaires I have known...." he declared, "If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars."
Buffett's "jerk doctrine" applies equally well to the growing digital wealth of managers and leaders. Technology seems to make managerial control freaks even freakier and the empowerers more empowering. Social media platforms and apps — LinkedIn, Jive, Yammer, SharePoint, Klout, etc. — pervasively proliferating inside the enterprise have made it easier for obsessive-compulsive leaders to compulsively obsess and for trusting leaders to trust (but verify.) Instant access and cloud has compressed the "mean time to meddling" to milliseconds for micromanagers. By the same token, more trusting and nurturing managers increasingly have the luxury to tacitly monitor their people and projects and choose when to intervene.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Is Technology Making You More (or Less) of a Jerk? - Michael Schrage - Harvard Business Review
