Your Manager Lives in Fear
It’s generally not obvious to workers in the field, but your manager deals with fear all the time. How a manager handles those fears often determines how successful they are.
Two sources of fear come with any management job: encountering the illusion of control, and being forced to make decisions based on inadequate information. Two other factors affect technical people who have been promoted into management: handling the loss of status relative to their success as a technical person, and facing the erosion of technical skills that comes from changing from a technical job to a managerial one. Let’s start with the issue of control, which affects everybody.
The Dream of Control
Everyone would like control over their own ...
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