> You don’t manage people. If you do, you’re a bad manager. People are not spherical beings in vacuum. Of course, you have to manage people. My experience is

> You don’t manage people. If you do, you’re a bad manager. People are not spherical beings in vacuum. Of course, you have to manage people. My experience is that throwing projects at people and assuming that they are all interchangeable cogs that will be able to complete projects if they fit the project is just asking for problems. Now, managing people does not have to be tantamount to standing there and pointing with your finger what they have to be doing next. "If you do, you're a bad manager." But there are other more subtle ways of managing people and learning to be a manager means learning to be able to influence people to do what you want them to be doing as much as learning what they should be doing.