I'm starting to appreciate that being an effective manager is hard. Figuring out how to motivate individual employees and stay on top of issues while still empowering your subordinates to use their own judgement and not getting in their way or impeding their progress through micromanagement must be an exhausting and tricky balance. I have been pondering this quite a bit recently, as a result of my interactions with a number of different managers who are all stressed out about functionality that I am responsible for implementing. It also reminds me once again that I have no interest whatsoever in becoming a people manager. There are plenty of problems to solve -- that much is clear -- but they're not the kind of problems that get me out of bed in the morning.
Random fact of the day: The average life span of a major league baseball is 7 pitches.
Although don't believe everything you read on a string cheese package...
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i concur. management is an art and a gift. i don't have it, yet for some reason i feel compelled to ponder about it. ;)
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