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Executive Training for Technologists
The
Paradox of Management
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As
an engineer, technical training was seen as an important part
of your career and support for your development. As a
manager, management training too often seen as unnecessary or
even a criticism. How is it that training is seen as
essential in one sphere and unnecessary in another?
Management, leadership, organizational, financial,
political and communications skills are no different
than any other learned skills. People start out
with varying degrees of natural talent and require
additional training to reach their potential.
Yet, virtually everyone
considers the multitude of skills we call management as
innate. We can all recount the numerous bad
managers we have suffered but never connect their
failures with a lack, or even a distain for acquiring
the skills to be successful.
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The Peter Principle Was Wrong |
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People do not rise to their level of
incompetence.
Rather, people
rise just past their level of training. When people increase
their skills, their level of accomplishment grows.
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Natural Talent is a Myth
Talent
is a starting point, not an destination. It is easy to see
natural talent in others. What we don't see is the training,
dedication and hard work that creates success. Talent alone
only carries so far. Those that look to get by just on what
comes easy only cheat themselves and their potentate in the end.
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