Managers !!!

When I had just started my career, I would always be thinking that it is a very simple to be a manager. They do nothing but just attend meeting through out the day and the outcome of the meeting (good or bad) is literally vomited on us! Today when I am at a similar position, I realize it is just not so simple. The biggest challenge that a manager faces is being accountable for others actions, slippages in schedule, carelessness and many more. Even to give a feedback, one has to think 10 times before letting the person know that he needs to improve. The biggest challenge to be a manager is that YOU NEED TO DEAL WITH PEOPLE (who have feelings, emotions, interpretations) which is surely not a easy job! In the past there was a incidence where I yelled at one of my team members for carelessness and lack of passion towards work. It did hurt me to a great extent as he was a very good friend of mine too. But I had to do it as I am paid for getting the work done and not for being good. I did feel real hurt with whatever followed that incidence and the effect stayed on me for a good bit of days (almost a year now). But when I think of it today, guess what I did was right! A person who cannot take feedback for improvement is really not matured and will never grow. It is this feedback that help the person to continuously improve. The other thing that contributes to growth is the ability to adapt to change (of any kind) like change of organization structure, change of your manager's mood, manager's perceptions, the company policies, etc.

And today I am sorry for thinking that "MANAGER HAVE NO WORK" in the past!!!