Miles Neale (7/30/2012)
Steve said in the article - "If you can't train great managers, can you at least train them to not be bad ones? "And for the first time in quite a long time I have to disagree. There are some that no matter what training, retraining, experience, or other effort will never be good managers. Some would take a complete personality transplant and others would require a sovereign move of God himself to make it happen.
Some clearly are not now, have never been, and will never be good management material. Some are born to follow!
M.
Perhaps, but are those edge cases, or do you think a significant proportion of people can be trained to not be bad managers? I think there are definitely some ill suited, but I think a manager that just was taught to leave you alone unless there were problems is something most people could learn.
I don't want to dwell on edge cases since that's in the 20% of problems. I'm looking for an 80% solution, which is what I think training to get people to not be bad managers is.