To Manage is to be Responsible
October 6th, 2006 by 
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One of the things I learned in the last 15 years is that everybody wants to be a manager, but nobody really wants to manage. For those not yet managing, don’t envy too quickly. It is hard enough to be asked to be responsible for yourself, how much harder is it to be responsible for the quirks and shortcomings of 10 other people in the team? Remember that to manage is to be responsible. And it is precisely on this that managers are highly paid.
It is something that I always continue to remind people - that if you want to gain the credit when something successful happens, then you have to understand that you are responsible for that when it fails.
It cannot be that you make it succeed, but somebody else makes it fail. If that person is responsible for not making it fail, then you have to give the person credit when it succeeds too.
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October 7th, 2006 at 1:02 am
Great point you make on management here. Another comment that I’d like to add is that not everyone is well suited to be a manager. This doesn’t mean that person is not intelligent or extremely skilled — we all have different strengths. To be a manager you must enjoy dealing with and coaching people, capable of putting out fires, and be able to shoulder responsibilities of other’s work.