Comments on: How to Become a Manager — 13 Skills You’ll Need

By: Harwell

Harwell — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:59:14 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Patrick. For some manager jobs you may be correct. But I was trying to be general in my list of skills, and I believe that many manager jobs -- particularly first-level manager jobs -- don't require much in the way of strategy. Certainly you need to be able to communicate to determine the direction you need to go, but many managers get their strategic direction from their own managers higher up in the organization. That's one of the main differences between lower-level and higher-level managers: the higher-level manager roles are more strategic, while the lower-level roles are more tactical and operational. For more on the subject of strategy as a management and leadership skill, see my article Why Middle Managers are Important, and scroll down to the part of the article entitled "What’s Middle?"

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:58:00 +0000

I would add “strategic vision” to this as well. You need to be able to identify problems with the organization that you can solve with your staff, and then figure out how to do it.

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