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Originally Posted by Mortis
I am also a firm believer that you can't make a good manager, they are born, just like good leaders. You can however make a good leader a bad manager by sending them to a bunch of high priced seminars, a night MBA perhaps, god forbid they by "Management Books"  |
You can't make a good manager, but you can try to improve bad ones.
I think the classic analysis of the problem was the one Lawrence J. Peter gave in "The Peter Principle", where the basic issue was that people were promoted to their level of incompetence. Folks who should never be managers get put into managerial slots because there isn't another growth path.
The most common example is technology, where good engineers get promoted to supervisors and things rapidly degrade. Engineers are good at dealing with rational problems and things that behave in predictable ways. Managers have to deal with human beings, who are often neither.
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Dennis