Lose Your Just-Good-Enough Managers Business Journal  Lose Your
Just-Good-Enough Managers  You can't build a great company by
tolerating mediocre leaders  "It's better to have a terrible
manager than a good-enough one," says Raad Al-Saady, managing
director for more than 7,000 employees at Abdul Latif Jameel,
one of the biggest companies in the Middle East. "Leaders are
very quick to make decisions on bad or ineffective leaders."
The difference between a great company and an average company is
how it deals with barely sufficient managers.  But managers who
are just good enough, he says, seem to linger forever. They
linger because they don't do anything really wrong -- but they
don't do anything really right either. That leads to mediocrity,
which Al-Saady calls a slow poison. In the following
conversation, Al-Saady shares how to detect the poison and
teach, move, or lose good-enough managers before the damage of
mediocrity spreads.  Gallup Business Journal: What's so bad
about good-enough managers?  Raad Al-