People management is one of the poorly understood and performed roles in a corporate hierarchy. Most middle management ( in technical organizations ) is promote

People management is one of the poorly understood and performed roles in a corporate hierarchy. Most middle management ( in technical organizations ) is promoted either due to 'Technical competence' or 'In-the-club'. Unfortunately either of these 2 selection criteria are not necessary functions for good people mgmt skills. Ace people managers are strategic physiologists. They understand emotion and motivation while developing a great understanding of their employees. Each employee has a profile that determines what motivates them and these managers have a good holding of this. All this while knowing that their employees are humans and not robotic machines.