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17/03/2005
Indexing & Authors
One of my jobs is indexing management journals. It isn't a job I really like and sometimes the articles are really annoying, but hey, it's just a job that has to be done so I do it. Once in a while I find an article I really like, such as the short one a few months back that said if you wanted your knowledge managed keep your library open! This time it was an article (and of course the reference is at work) from someone describing how managers either focus on their team and so get great results from them or focus on the ones they report to and so get career advancement. I think I've already said in a previous post that I think people skills and ambition are mutually exclusive. It was so nice to see a similar view in a management mag! And they put it so simply! I actually wrote to the author, something I've taken to doing lately if I appreciate someone’s writing enough and if they provide their email address. I wondered if there were any managers who could change their focus and if there were any that could focus on both directions at the same time. He thinks there are a very few exceptional managers out there who can do that without conflict, but I'll have to take his word for it, I haven't come across them.
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