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akienm for permission to link to his recent entry about managing people.
He brings up four things a good manager should do: connect, listen, respect, appreciate [his team members].
Reading that, I realize that my favoritest manager in my patchwork career is the guy who did three: Listen, Respect, and Appreciate. (Perhaps he's my favoritest simply because I have not yet worked for someone who has done all four.) If that man were not now deceased, I would go try to work for him again, no matter what the product or corporate atmosphere.
I wish My Division In The Company That Shall Not Be Named had kept... or had ever had, frankly... a handful of managers who did all of these. Rumor has it that it had, last week, one such. (I don't know for sure because I didn't work for this person.) Now it has zero.
akienm for permission to link to his recent entry about managing people.He brings up four things a good manager should do: connect, listen, respect, appreciate [his team members].
Reading that, I realize that my favoritest manager in my patchwork career is the guy who did three: Listen, Respect, and Appreciate. (Perhaps he's my favoritest simply because I have not yet worked for someone who has done all four.) If that man were not now deceased, I would go try to work for him again, no matter what the product or corporate atmosphere.
I wish My Division In The Company That Shall Not Be Named had kept... or had ever had, frankly... a handful of managers who did all of these. Rumor has it that it had, last week, one such. (I don't know for sure because I didn't work for this person.) Now it has zero.
