Wednesday, February 11, 2009

What Great Managers Know


From First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham, the point is made that great managers don't assume that they can correct or add lacking traits in their employees. Rather, they know that there is a limit to how much they can remold someone's nature. So, instead of bemoaning differences among employees, they capitalize on them.

"They try to help each person become more and more of who he already is.

Simply put, this is the one insight we heard echoed by tens of thousands of great managers:

People don't change that much.
Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out.
Try to draw out what was left in.
That is hard enough."


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