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	Sunday, May 01, 2005

Promoting the Best Doers to Become Managers  ( on business) One of the dilemmas in management is the tendency to promote our best producers to managers.  The best programmers become the development head,  and the best sales people invariably gets to become sales manager, etc. There are pitfalls in it since the skills and focus needed are not the same.  Here is a great post by Michael Jones entitled Producers vs. Managers.  He follows it up with another post that selfless management is the key to solve that.   11:48:56 AM     comment []   trackback []