If you are a great doer ….
September 10th, 2006 by 
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Loading ...YOu will make a lousy manager.
Just as they say, a good basketball player may not always become a good coach. The trait or talent is just so different.
This was one of the lessons I learned managing. The best sales people know how to sell, deal with people, and they spend their time knowing their products, and also their customers. They may not want to spend time, nor are they necessarily geared or predisposed to spending time managing or mentoring other sales people. I also had this issue with programmers. If you are great in coding, you might not necessarily be a patient or a good teacher, nor would you want to spend time doing so.
The next time you want to promote your best programmers to programming head, or your best sales people to sales manager, maybe you may want to think first - does he/she have disposition or talent for managing?
Because managing is not about delivering results yourself. Managing is about working to make other people deliver results.
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September 11th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
I agree. This is why companies should offer at least 2 different tracks for promotion. Unfortunately in a lot of companies, the only way to get promoted (and increase your salary and privileges) is to become a manager. Programmers are forced to do things they are not good at (i.e. managing and dealing with bureaucracy) and abandon the things they are passionate and highly successful with (i.e. writing software).