Why Aren’t There More Good Managers? Manager Insight Tips.

Why Aren’t There More Good Managers?

There are five main reasons why there aren’t more good managers:
1. Most occupations require some demonstrated competence, but management doesn’t. Many occupations require certification or a license, where you have to pass a test to demonstrate a certain level of knowledge and proficiency. To become a plumber or an electrician, for example, you’ve got to be licensed. Frankly, even a dog has to be licensed. What do you need to become a manager? Nothing. Nothing at all. You just have to be in the right place at the right time. Maybe you’re the last one standing. Everyone else has quit and you’ve hung around the longest. It’s the ‘‘Poof! You’re a manager’’ process. Imagine if there were a ‘‘Poof! You’re a heart surgeon’’ process. I don’t think things would work out very well that way.

2. Most managers are thrown into the fray without training or preparation. They’re given little guidance and direction. We invest little and we get little in return. That’s the way it happened to me. It was very typical. I can still remember the day of the week and the time of day. We were finishing up our employee coffee break. It was just a normal daily coffee break. We spent the whole time complaining about management. They were fools, bureaucrats, out of touch, and cared only about themselves. The usual story. I got called into a vice president’s office at 10:15 a. m. My first thought was, ‘‘I must be in trouble. What have I done wrong?’’ The vice president told me that starting Monday, I’d be a manager. I was floored. I said, ‘‘Why me?’’ I felt I was being punished. He talked to me about how much the organization needed me. It’s not the kind of thing you can turn down. I remember asking him, ‘‘What am I supposed to do?’’ He gave me the classic response: ‘‘You’ll figure it out.’’ Well, some people do figure it out. A lot of people, unfortunately, never do.

3. Everyone is, to some extent, a reflection of who they’ve modeled themselves after. Parents, teachers, and older siblings have an obvious impact on children. Those managers we’ve worked for have had an impact on us. Some of us say, ‘‘I’ll have to remember how it feels to be treated this way. I’ll be sure not to do that when I become a manager.’’ But most say, ‘‘This is what managers are supposed to do, I guess. I’m required to be like the person I work for. That must be what the company wants.’’ So, a generation of mediocre or poor managers gives rise to a new generation of mediocre or poor managers.
The challenge in such circumstances is to stop the cycle and break the ‘‘stagnant quo.’’ Be different. Be better. Be wary, though. You may get in trouble. There will be plenty of people around with the dread disease known as ‘‘hardening of the attitudes.’’ I don’t think you can be any good if you’re afraid to get in trouble or be called crazy for wanting to change things. As Nobel prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman said, ‘‘Here’s to the crazy ones. . . . You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them, because they change things. . . . Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.’’

4. Even after they become managers, people continue to be rewarded for being good individual contributors. Knowing what people are rewarded for always helps you understand the way they behave. Ever read a manager’s performance review? It’s usually hard to find a single line about management performance. It’s typically about the projects the managers worked on and the problems they’ve solved. It’s about how hard they personally have worked. They’re like super employees. If that’s how we’re going to continue to reward managers, as individual contributors, that’s what they’re going to continue to focus on.

5. Truthfully, the job is hard. Most people can become programmers or accountants with some education and some work. Management requires skill that a lot of people don’t have or aren’t willing to work at. The higher you go up the pyramid, the more difficult the jobs are. That’s why the pyramid gets narrower and narrower at the top. The pyramid looks at how many people can do jobs at the different levels. It helps explain why people who make it to the top are paid perhaps 200 times what people at the bottom make. If you’re good enough to make it to the top, you should be paid 200 times what people at the bottom are paid. People at the top of every profession earn substantially more than people at the bottom. They can do things that very few people can do. That’s the way it’s always been. That’s the way it always will be. In a free market economy, people make what they are worth. If that weren’t true, the market would correct it.

Why Aren’t There More Good Managers? Manager Insight Tips.

Four basic kinds of people. Be an Extraordinary Manager who make things happen.

Four basic kinds of people:

1. Those who make things happen. You can count on these people 100 percent of the time. No matter what the assignment, no matter what the obstacles to overcome, no matter what the deadline. They’re always improving themselves. Their development curve looks like a skyrocket. I’m assuming you’re this kind of person.

2. Those who watch things happen. These people are the spectators. They sit up in the stands. They second-guess and play Monday-morning quarterback. You probably say the same things to them that I do: ‘‘If you can do better, you come down on the field of play where the action is.’’ Of course, they never do. They don’t want to get their hands dirty. They don’t want to stick their necks out.

3. Those who wonder what’s happening. These are the people who are always confused. Things are never clear enough for them. They’re always waiting for something. They say things like, ‘‘I have the responsibility but not the authority.’’ They want things to be given to them. On retirement day, they’ll still be waiting for instructions and direction.

4. Those that everything happens to. These are the victims. The ‘‘Woe is me!’’ people. They claim they have such terrible luck. In truth, they make their own bad luck. You hate to even say ‘‘Hi!’’ to them. That’s the only opening they need. They’ll give you an hour’s worth of their latest problems and their latest troubles. You wish you could hold a mirror up to these people. Maybe then they’d see themselves for the way they really are. Some of them have had fifteen or sixteen different jobs. They always say, ‘‘No one understood me. No one listened to me. They made promises they didn’t keep. It wasn’t fair.’’ After that many jobs, you’d think they’d learn that their own behavior has a lot to do with their lack of success. But they just don’t want to face the truth. So they play the ‘‘blame game.’’

When the cake comes out wrong, it’s seldom the fault of the ingredients. The odds are the flour, sugar, and eggs were just fine. It’s probably the fault of the baker. Some bakers are good and others aren’t so good. Some managers are good and others aren’t so good. The best have special recipes that they’ve learned. They take ordinary ingredients and incredible things happen. You can be like that, too. I’m not saying that the ingredients don’t matter. Get good ingredients. But it takes much more than that to be a great baker.

So, why aren’t there more good managers? We’ve got many good programmers. Most programmers are very capable. There are a few bad ones, of course, but the vast majority are just fine. We’ve got many good accountants. Most accountants are very capable. There are a few bad ones, of course, but the vast majority are just fine. You get the idea. With management, it’s just the opposite. There are some good ones. But many aren’t very good at all. They cause more harm than good. They discourage, demotivate, and drive good people out of organizations. They negatively affect business results and cost companies untold amounts of money to repair the damage they cause.

Extraordinary managers make the whole greater than the sum of its parts. They add value to their organization. They get extraordinary results from ordinary people. Average managers wind up with ordinary results no matter how good their people are. There are even managers who, unfortunately, drag their groups down so that they get ordinary results from extraordinary people. The whole, then, becomes less than the sum of its parts. These managers have little, if any, value. They don’t really manage much of anything. They’re ‘‘straw bosses.’’ After the worthwhile stalks of wheat and other grains are harvested, straw is what’s left over on the ground. It’s used primarily for animal bedding. The term straw boss has come to mean a low-level manager who isn’t good for much. Such managers have very little authority. They’re leftovers. The term also connotes someone who is petty and makes things more difficult, not better, for employees.

So, be a ‘‘Make things happen’’ kind of person/Manager now!!

Four basic kinds of people. Be an Extraordinary Manager who make things happen.

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