THE DAILY SKILLS OF MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 29
THE DAILY SKILLS OF MANAGEMENT
Try explaining your job to a 3-year-old. The chances are that the intricacies of balancing budgets, managing projects and dealing with the politics of business life will be lost on the child. But if you explain that you spend most of the day talking, listening, reading, writing and meeting people, then even a 3-year-old might understand. And that is the essence of what managers do all day: we focus on basic tasks that even a 3-year-old can understand.
Because these tasks are so basic, we assume that we know how to do them well. Like breathing, it is assumed. But if you wanted ...
