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Only Good Managers Get To Manage
| In most organizations good managers are rare. The percentage of really good managers (if all the managers in all the companies in America are placed in one group) at best is only about 5%. If you find this hard to believe, take a moment and review your own work history. How many good managers have you worked for?
General Electric gets it right, "Only good managers get to manage." Why? Because in a management hierarchy, those people who report to a poor manager are doomed. They either must accept what at best would be mediocrity or leave the manager. Most leave! I guarantee that your gifted future managers (that rare 5%) will walk out the door!
Good Managers:- Communicate expectations clearly and unambiguously (80% of managing effectively – Insight 40
- Do not tolerate incompetence or recalcitrance but staff only with capable, positive people – Insight 39
- Are able to get commitment from every staff member - "I will deliver" to the established goals – Insight 64
- Are capable of measuring, reviewing, and rewarding performance on a regular basis – Insight 91
What do you do if your present management team falls into that uninspiring 95%? You must train and develop them to meet the above standards. Those who can learn and apply these outlined principles will move from the bottom management quartiles to the second and some to even the first management quartile. Reward them appropriately!
And, move those who continually fall short and /or whose staff turnover is exacting a high price in the company's reputation and revenue - out of management! (What are you waiting for??) |
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