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I was a new manager once. I think it was back in Pleistocene Era, though it may have been the Mesozoic. But one thing I do remember: It was a jungle out there. I didn’t have any training – why would I need it, doesn’t everyone instinctively know how to manage people?- and I quickly made a couple thousand mistakes. Or maybe it was a just couple hundred and seemed like a couple thousand – it was a long time ago.
Groping for answers well before they were available at the click of a mouse, I read books. In the first month I read The One Minute Manager, a autobiography of Lee Iacocca, and In Search of Excellence. They were all excellent, but they didn’t help me with my day-to-day, in-the-trenches problems. So I blundered along, learning the hard way, through trial and error
Via Daniel Watson
Some sound and common sense advice here. The vast majority of new managers are thrown in at the deep end. This information is particularly relevant to 3001 - Outcome 3 and also Unit 3005.
How well do you manage your staff? Food for thought