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Originally Posted by GLOW

for management, i find it is not an easy role, there's lots of bad managers out there, they may be smart or technically competent, but couldn't manage their way out of a paper bag. zero people/communication skills and can't lead, or micromanage and provide no leadership. i've been pretty lucky at dodging (sometimes by a hair) having had these types of managers. i swear some are their own worst enemy (in addition to those around them)

I think the mistake a lot of folks make when they step into management is that they don't realise that it's a completely different career track and not just a bigger version of their prior job. It requires a totally different set of skills applied in very foreign ways.

As a result we end up with lots of shit managers who don't really know how to do the job but who still get promoted and fail to train up the next round of managers.