How To Be An Even Better Manager

Simon Roskrow says 22 July 2010

Good article – management is too often viewed as a bolt-on to your ‘real’ job, and not a role in itself. Building on your 6th and 7th points, management (of both processes and people) is a skill that needs to be learnt and developed, just as you would develop sales skills, negotiation skills, finance skills and so on.

Too often, a great finance or sales person (or someone from any function) is put into a management position and expected to simply ‘start managing’ things. You’d never (I hope!) put someone untrained in finance in a position to do your accounting, so why put someone untrained in management in a position to manage your business?

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Anna Bass says 29 July 2010

This is an interesting topic. I’m always looking for smart resources to share with clients and the accounting community, and your article is certainly worth sharing!

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