What happens when your career takes you away from the work that made you successful?

In Episode 15 of Leadership SOPs, host Ed Tyson welcomes Dr. Mayssa Attar, Senior Vice President of Pharmaceutical and Consumer R&D at Bausch + Lomb, to explore the challenging transition from technical expert to executive leader.

Drawing from her journey from scientist to senior executive, Mayssa shares why great leadership requires courage, adaptability, and the ability to empower others rather than always having the answers.

Discover how to navigate difficult colleagues, embrace career transitions, build collaborative teams, and create an environment where people feel comfortable raising challenges before they become bigger problems.

Because becoming a great leader isn't about leaving your expertise behind. It's about learning how to make an even greater impact through others.

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Flattening an organization sounds appealing: fewer management layers, lower costs, faster decisions, greater autonomy, and less bureaucracy. But what happens when the leaders who remain suddenly inherit a much heavier leadership load?

In this episode of LeadershipSOPs, Ed Tyson examines “The Great Flattening,” the growing organizational trend of eliminating management layers and expanding spans of control. While flattening can create real value, Ed challenges leaders to look beyond headcount and organizational charts before deciding which management roles are truly unnecessary.

Ed breaks down six critical leadership accountabilities: governance, coordination, integration, quality, performance, and stewardship. He explains why two managers with the same number of direct reports can carry dramatically different leadership workloads depending on the complexity, risk, interdependence, expertise, and demands of their teams.

He also challenges the idea that there is a universal “right” number of direct reports. Instead, organizations should determine how much leadership work actually needs to be done, how much capacity a manager has, and whether the next leader up can realistically absorb those responsibilities if a management layer disappears.

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How do you effectively lead people when you can’t see what they’re doing, how they’re performing, or when they need your help?

In this episode of LeadershipSOPs, Ed Tyson explores multi-site leadership and why leading beyond your physical line of sight is not a challenge created by remote work. Enterprise leaders have been managing people across locations, regions, and even countries for generations.

Ed breaks down what leaders lose when physical proximity disappears, including the ability to passively observe attendance, behavior, and condition, and explains why relying too heavily on what you can see can expose weaknesses in your leadership systems. Observation may reveal an event, but data reveals the pattern.

The solution centers on three critical leadership capabilities: Alignment, Coordination, and Transparency, or ACT. When leaders intentionally build these into their systems, teams can make better decisions, coordinate work, maintain accountability, and operate effectively even when the leader is somewhere else.

Tune in to learn how to build the processes, communication, accountability, and leadership systems required to lead beyond your sight without losing alignment, trust, or performance.

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