Weak Senior Manager

If you have a small to medium sized business, you should evaluate the quality of your management team at least every six months.

If you have a weak manager, you owe it to the rest of your management team and to the company to replace him or her with a stronger manager. Most companies have four disciplines or functions; Sales, Operations, Information and Finance. View those four functions as four legs of a chair. If one of the four legs of the chair is weak, the whole chair falls down. If one of the four managers responsible for the four functions (Sales, Operations, Information and Finance) is weak, the whole company fails!