"Management contradicts human nature."
Gary Dologite
True on so many levels.
For one thing, there is the Hollywood movie truth: nearly all really good sergeants don't want to be lieutenants.
For another thing, so many people are really no good at being a manager. Too much ego, too much fear, too much ignorance, you name it….
I suspect that the reason we don't have enough good managers is that there simply aren't enough capable people to fill all of the management slots. I suspect that the first thing a new CEO should do is eliminate half of the management positions in his company, and then ask all of the current and former managers to re-apply for the remaining slots…….that way, at least some of the worst managers would be culled.
And to Gary's point above: I don't think good managers are super-human or non-human….I think they are compassionate enough to sympathize with human joy and human aspiration and human frailty, and they are smart enough to know that you don't get far if everyone in the boat is paddling in a different direction…
…and yeah, they do strategic planning and profit-maximization and that kind of stuff, you can teach people to do that part…
Everybody's a manager?
Are you a great manager?
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