The difficult/fun part of management is identifying each person's personal motivations and making sure you tailor your "style" to match. Someone may be best mot

The difficult/fun part of management is identifying each person's personal motivations and making sure you tailor your "style" to match. Someone may be best motivated by bonuses but it's also equally likely that someone on your team may best be motivated by attending a conference, ability to work from home, working on new technologies, raising their personal brand by blogging, writing articles, etc. Without the "soft" side, management can be done by a machine, which is why I really dislike management-by-the-numbers. Why should a "manager" get paid more money than "doers" if all the manager does is print out a Gantt chart, say "Improve performance!" and crack the whip "Work harder!"? Makes no sense.