My Management Journey and a Book
When I got started as a manager, I was clueless. I had no idea how to deal with people or how to motivate them. It was apparent early on that I was good at getting people angry and demotivating them, but that is counter to the point of managing people. The problem was that I didn't have any resources available to me to help me navigate those early days of my career. Don't get me wrong I had a manager that did his best to guide me, but he could only teach me what he knew, and while successful to a point he was slowly losing touch with the new realities of the modern workforce. Other managers thought they could take me under their wing and guide me, but again they were dealing from old paradigms or mistaken notions of how to manage people. None of this is terrible. After all, it shaped me as a manager and as a person. As I moved through my career, I kept observing what worked and what didn't. I tried different tactics. Some worked, and some were complete failures. I...
