Managerial isolation

Managers know only too well that their position and responsibilities can lead to isolation. It is not possible to share everything with everyone. This is sometimes due to confidentiality reasons, and other times it is important that a manager keeps their thoughts and concerns to themselves. But as competition and insecurity grows in the workplace, there is the risk that this isolation will continue to grow and worsen.

This also applies to media managers. “Can you tell your finance director or communications director everything? Who can a producer talk to? Can the chairman of a listed company or a subsidiary of an international group talk to their shareholders? Can a programme director share their concerns with their general director? Can an editor-in-chief tell their editor everything?” But isolation also has its risks: taking a step back and not being criticised, and galvanizing choices.

In order to succeed, managers must be lucid, eager for criticism, able to adapt to change, skilful.