This alarming finding comes from research on 360-degree feedback on more than six thousand people ranging from individual contributors to managers and senior-level managers in 140 countries. Over forty-seven thousand bosses, peers, direct reports, and customers rated these workers on a variety of job-related skills and competencies. Not only was “developing others” rated dead last in terms of skills that managers have, but “motivating others” was rated fifty-ninth out of the sixty-seven competencies examined and “building effective teams” was rated fifty-seventh. You
