The misfit
It is amazing how many people are playing the role of Managing Director, yet they are both unqualified to do the job and very unhappy in trying.I met a chap recently. He has turned fifty yet he looks sixty. He was telling me about the stresses and strains of the job. He didn’t really enjoy chairing the Operational Management Meeting each month. “It always overruns,” he complained. He couldn’t get his head around the marketing strategy – somehow it just didn’t make sense to him. And as for the people management stuff– “just don’t even go there” he pleaded.
No, the only bit of the job that really appealed, the only thing that helped him out of bed each morning, was getting out and doing the job, face to face with customers. Just as he had done all through his professional training and development for over thirty years.
And when it’s like that, when it really isn’t going to get any better, and the tears have been shed, I put people like this out of their misery.
I sack them.
Labels: business growth
posted by Tim @ 12:15 AM
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