Work Rants

Management is important. Work is about people, not work. Sure the people have to get work done. However, it seems like those assholes never get along. In my experience, when executive leadership needs a new manager, they tend to find someone who's kicking ass at their current job and promotes that person to the next level. Then they throw the newly promoted person to the wolves. Hey, they kicked ass before, surely they will figure it out, right? Not always. People are promoted to their greatest level of incompetence - The Peter Principle.  As an employee, it is important that we are preparing ourselves for our next promotion. Someday, some poor, misguided manager might give us one.  A few years ago, I was promoted from Lead Programmer to Assistant Managing Director. My training was a couple of conversations and then I was sent into the management wilderness to find my own way. As it turns out, I'm a big Maximizer . I already read some books to help me deal