Crisis of Leadership

Today's Helsingin Sanomat wrote about the "crisis of leadership" in Finnish enterprises: regular employees (who hold non-managerial positions) are increasingly reluctant to assume responsibility and leadership roles in teams.

Come on now! That "crisis" is a direct outcome of growing salary gaps. As long as companies hire ridiculously high-paid people whose job is to lead and manage, how can anyone seriously ask regular employees to bear a share of leading and managing? If you hire high-paid professional managers, also expect them to do the managing. Bigger salary, bigger responsibility, bigger workload. If you want your regular employees to assume responsibility, to lead, and to manage, you pay your regular employees more.