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Many managers take control with the belief their technical expertise in their field is more important in their management role than the challenge to manage finite resources of people, time, and budget.
Any technical ability the manager had, as an individual contributor to meet their functional skill, is not as important as the ability to listen, to motivate, to teach, to learn.
To promote the contrary is to promote insanity.
Industry myopia culls innovation. People who grow in one industry or cycle, through only one industry may seem safe to hire. …
If your company and my company recruit the same person and your company can not motivate that person, but my company can keep that person motivated: I win.
I’ll take an employee with half the technical skills who is motivated, over an employee with more technical skills who is unmotivated. We maximize resources to survive and motivation management is resources management.
If your company and my company need a series of projects to roll out a new strategic plan and your company can not deliver on those projects, but my company can: I win.
Social intelligence, social competence, emotional competence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, emotional adaptiveness, emotional quotient, emotional intelligence, EQ, and EI. There are …
As mentioned in the post Hiring is more emotional than rational technical skill rarely assures success in an organization.  There are just …
You have to assume every person you interview has the technical skill to do the job. Once past the traditional human …