How To Be A Superhero Manager

Look, there in the sky! Is it a plane? Or is it … the Superhero Manager?!

While reflecting on my own personal reasons for pursuing a management path in Engineering, it can confidently be said that none of the goals included wearing a cape. It is my earnest opinion that it can be said with reasonable confidence that not many people wake up and say to themselves: ‘I am going to go out and try and be a superhero today‘.

a fictional hero having extraordinary or superhuman powers
also : an exceptionally skillful or successful person

superhero (noun) Merriam-Webster

Superheroes seem to be everywhere in pop culture these days. While there are specific definitions like the one from Merriam-Webster above, in general, superheroes are people who manifest abilities or powers and who act in a brave and self-sacrificing manner.

Through copious amounts of reading and personal interactions I have never personally been informed of nor witnessed another manager clambering around in a mask while doing their daily work. Setting aside a potentially wild Halloween company party scenario, masked vigilantes are not a sight that we associate with the workplace.

Managers do not need to wear a cape or see a spotlight in the clouds in order to be a superhero in their everyday interactions…