Some advice to the managers and aspiring managers from the perspective an employee. Good qualities in managers: * I have a lot to learn from you * you reward

Some advice to the managers and aspiring managers from the perspective an employee. Good qualities in managers: * I have a lot to learn from you * you reward me with promotions and bonuses when I do well * you can sell a vision, even a small one, and motivate me * you take my problems and concerns seriously and do not ignore them, rather than gas-lighting me and trying to paint my concerns as the problem * you have the awareness to figure out what my core motivations are, and have and skill to align your goals with mine, thus putting both of us on a path towards shared success * you are forthcoming and honest with your feedback, bc you see my blindspots and tell me about them so I can fix them * you understand that too much attrition is a bad signal for management success * you understand that as a leader you understand accountability -- you deserve a greater proportion of the success but also the downside when things go bad * I want to crawl over broken glass for you bc of all of the above bc you have earned my loyalty Bad qualities in managers: * there isn't much to learn from you, and the best thing I can learn is not how to be bad manager, bc you're a bad manager and I know it * if you leave and my performance does not suffer, it means your presence never had a positive effect (or any effect) in my role * you gas light me when I bring up problems and concerns, shifting any responsibly form you to me * you are neurotic and I need to work around your emotions to make you "feel good", and I get more reward for this than actually delivering work * you do not have the courage to give me difficult feedback that I need to hear bc you are afraid of having uncomfortable and awkward conversations * you are so preoccupied with making your manager happy that you sacrifice your employees to accomplish this * you do not care enough about attrition and underestimate the consequences of losing good employees, mostly bc your employees feel the consequences, not you * bc of your lack of skill as manager, the relationships you have with your employees end up being adversarial rather then a shared success..no one wants to crawl over broken glass to work for you and the employees who stick around do not want to be there * you do not understand accountability -- you repeatedly make poor decisions bc you never face the consequences, until its too late and then you get fired bc at that point, its obvious the problems was you all along * you were promoted bc you kissed the right ass at the right time, which does great damage to your world view bc now you assume this is just the way the world works I could keep going, but that should suffice for now.