What Makes a Good Manager

Someday I will have an original thought. Until then check out this excerpt from Matthew Stewart's The Management Myth.

A good manager is someone:

• with a facility for analysis and an even greater talent for synthesis
• who has an eye for the details and for the one big thing that really matters
• that is able to reflect on facts in a disinterested way, who is always dissatisfied with pat answers and the conventional wisdom, and therefore takes a certain pleasure in knowledge itself
• with a wide knowledge of the world and an even better knowledge of the way people work
• who knows how to treat people with respect; someone with honesty, integrity, trustworthiness, and the other things that make up character
• in short, who understands oneself, and the world around us well enough to know how to make it better.