Manager: When Your Job Is No Longer Doing

"The foolish think that nothing is well done, except that which they do themselves."

Unknown

The hardest thing many managers must do is learn to manage rather than do.

How about you?

The Power of Comprehension

"Tis better to understand than to be understood."

Unknown

How true is this?

Think what you can accomplish when you really do understand, regardless of what those around you know or believe they know.

Planning is Thinking

"Many people would rather die than think. In fact they do."

Bertrand Russel
20th century British philosopher/mathematician

I can directly link (far too) many of my failures to a lack of thought prior to taking action, and I would say the same is true for you as well.

But first, I want to think about that some more.

Power Abuse

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Abraham Lincoln

So true and the managers who most abuse power are often incapable of seeing that they do.

However the good news is, because of that, they look silly to most all around them and rarely last.

Management: The Trade-Off Between Youth and Experience

"Forty is the old age of youth, 50 the youth of old age."

Victor Hugo
19th century French poet/novelist

And what about now?

At least in business today, a time when many older workers want and need to continue to work, I'm betting (too many) feel these numbers should be 35 and 45.

What do you think?