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[Spitfire]

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I hate the words Manager and Management ... as a Building Society 'Manager' of some 20 years I couldn't manage a pi§§ up in a brewery - my girls ran the office like clockwork because they were good at their jobs not because of my 'management' - I just sat in a big chair and took all the praise from above and the stick from below - I was good at selling - but that doesn't make you a good manager.

My boss was area manager because he was better at selling than me and that made him eligible for promotion - but now he has to be a proactive man manager and being good at selling doesn't make you good at that. In fact he was crap - he used big stick management - you do it because I say so.

I have long held the belief that people are promoted to the level of their own incompetance and that means most managers. Some of them were so bad they were promoted to get shot of them - and I've seen that in action

REAL Management is a skill - a definite dyed in the wool gold plated skill - and you either have it or you don't.

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[Mayfly]

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I hate the words Manager and Management ... as a Building Society 'Manager' of some 20 years I couldn't manage a pi§§ up in a brewery - my girls ran the office like clockwork because they were good at their jobs not because of my 'management' - I just sat in a big chair and took all the praise from above and the stick from below - I was good at selling - but that doesn't make you a good manager.

My boss was area manager because he was better at selling than me and that made him eligible for promotion - but now he has to be a proactive man manager and being good at selling doesn't make you good at that. In fact he was crap - he used big stick management - you do it because I say so.

I have long held the belief that people are promoted to the level of their own incompetance and that means most managers. Some of them were so bad they were promoted to get shot of them - and I've seen that in action

REAL Management is a skill - a definite dyed in the wool gold plated skill - and you either have it or you don't.

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and your point is?

[Spitfire]

Well there you go .... you knew what I meant straight away Pam - management potential

[Dan4th]

I see exactly what you mean, David.....

The best managers are, well, they are
people who have the strength of personality
that makes others WANT to do what they
ask of them. My Great Uncle Paul Danforth,
long gone now, was a high level banker. His
"people" would have done ANYTHING for him.
He had a very easy way about him, but all of
those who worked for him would go to great
lengths to please him. I really think it's a
personality thing and a trust thing and a "We're
all in this Together" kind of a thing. Vision is
also part of it......

Not enough of these people, though....Too many
Big Stick Managers, as you say.

And, yes, I think Pammy would make an EXCELLENT
Manager of just about anything! With the possible
exception of SM's social calendar.....

Dan4th

[Spitfire]

Yep you're right there - I had one (and only one) really good manager above me when in the Building Society - he got to know me so well that he knew HOW to manage me - I am one of these people that can be high as a kite one minute and down on the floor the next - and very little in between ... but he learned how to pull me down off the ceiling and push me up off the floor - and I would have done anything for him ... he knew how to have a good belly laugh with you ... and how to bring you back in line with discipline ..... and he earned my respect and I gave it freely.

Most of my other managers - and there were many - were total tusses - they either let you run riot - or were too hard and squashed you flat.

As I said - it's an art

[Saracenman]

.............- it's an art

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[Spitfire]

Yeah - AN ART ... not a rock with holes in



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[Saracenman]

all these Hepworths.................
















































heathen!

[Xplumberlives]

What was this thread about originally?

[RLN]

[Saracenman]

ironic really - it's a thread about money, and yet it's me going on about how GREAT these shiny-rocks-with-holes-in are.................and in reality, they are just large bits of Ooop North Currency!

[Xplumberlives]

ironic really - it's a thread about money, and yet it's me going on about how GREAT these shiny-rocks-with-holes-in are.................and in reality, they are just large bits of Ooop North Currency!

Is that the stuff they use to buy ferrets, pigeons and whippets?

[Mayfly]

and flat caps

[Xplumberlives]

Tis GRIM ooooop North like!

[Spitfire]

What was this thread about originally?

That's why I like this forum - stuff develops and changes and no one really gives a monkeys
I can see that some threads need to stay on topic - but others not so - and that's the difference - no one whinges

[Xplumberlives]

What was this thread about originally?

That's why I like this forum - stuff develops and changes and no one really gives a monkeys
I can see that some threads need to stay on topic - but others not so - and that's the difference - no one whinges

Would that be aimed at a certain VULCAN based forum, known as the OTHER place?

[Spitfire]

NEVER crossed my mind - at all - not once - ever....now where's the pinocchio smilie