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There's a whole range of "management skills" that are pertinent to being a manager. This is what really complicates things. My former manager was extremely gif
by hkmurakami 14y ago
There's a whole range of "management skills" that are pertinent to being a manager. This is what really complicates things.
My former manager was extremely gifted at salesmanship (selling our "product" to the C level) and was deft at dealing with interdepartmental politics (including posturing to make our product/team more important in the company) for us. But he was a squeezer, and honestly just didn't care about the well being or mental sanity of each of his team members. This made him (in my view) a good or even very-good manager, but far from a great one.
- hkarthik 14y agoThis is the classic case of someone who excels at "managing up" but is deficient at "managing down". The way most of corporate America is structured today, most managers are incentivized to manage up. That's why great managers are so rare.