The most important job requirements for managers and leaders are: manage and lead the entire team , and continue to accomplish a certain goal. The achievement of a goal does not necessarily have to be done by yourself. Most of the time, it is best not Do it yourself.
However, because professional and technical personnel have relatively strong business capabilities and have formed technical thinking for a long time, after becoming a manager and becoming a manager and leader, it is easy to continue the original thinking mode and behavior mode, and they have not changed from being a manager and leader. .
Common problems are:
1. There is no change from technical thinking to management thinking
The fundamental reason is not the objective of managing "things" this object converted Management subjective " person" object.
It has not changed from the perspective of looking at "things" to the perspective of looking at "people".
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2. There is no change from a personal perspective to a team perspective
Professional and technical personnel focus on personal professional and business ability, and focus on their own personal originality.
After such a person becomes a manager, it is easy to do it by himself, trying to show his personal professional and technical ability in the team.
Sometimes, even when a team member encounters a little difficulty, he will start to solve the problem himself. In this case, once in a while, there is no problem. However, technical managers are not easy to realize this, and often still Complacent: You see, my business skills are the best.
As everyone knows, if things go on like this, on the one hand, there will be no successors in the technical team, on the other hand, the team members will not be able to feel and reflect their own value. Team members will either leave with strong ability or stay with weaker members. The combat effectiveness of the entire team cannot be improved, and the size of the team will gradually shrink.
The main task of managers is to manage and lead the team, make the team bigger and stronger, and unite all kinds of talents. It is a taboo behavior for technical managers to display their technical capabilities too much, and even strengthen the limelight of team members.
Managers who do not understand technology have a natural advantage here. They will unite and respect the professionals of the team, let the professionals do professional things, reflect their value, the value of each person, and finally aggregate into the team. Value, this is the value of managers.
Later, technical managers need to learn to "play dumb", let the team solve problems on their own, assist the team to improve their abilities, and do everything by themselves. When the results are:
(1) No separation of responsibilities
(2) No one thinks about the overall strategy and direction of the team
(3) The performance and coordination of team members have been neglected, and team effectiveness has declined
(4) Team members cannot grow effectively
Zhuge Liang in the late Shu Han Dynasty:
In technical terms, a software system is divided into: management process, scheduling process, occurrence and reception process, data transmission process, and data processing process.
The responsibility of the management process is to coordinate and manage all other processes. If the management process spends a lot of energy on sending, receiving or processing data, it is obviously a very bad software architecture design.
In short, the goals of managers and leaders are: to assist, manage, motivate and lead the team.
3. There is no conversion from the thinking of "right and wrong" to the thinking of "compromise and balance"-the criterion of judgment
If the water is clear, you will fish. A team needs to be composed of various people:
- The roles are diverse, there are people with strong professional and technical ability, and they also need to be coordinators, and those who need to do routine work. Each role has value for the long-term existence of the team. You can't just focus on professional and technical personnel. .
- Everyone has diverse personalities, diverse thinking patterns, diverse world outlooks and value management, diverse emotions, and diverse behaviors. You cannot use personal preference criteria to evaluate a person.
The common mistake of technical managers is to use an objective and uniform standard to require everyone.
This will lead to a single team, and let team members create an illusion: the manager's metric is too small to accommodate others. In this way, no one is willing to follow the manager.
Managers need to have a "compromise and balance" thinking to manage and coordinate people with various roles and personalities.
4. From technical business authority to management dictatorship
After being called managers, professional and technical personnel have gained power in management positions and have the right to manage, judge, and make judgments on others.
If a professional and technical person deliberately establishes his own authority in the field of technology and business, this person will form a dictatorship in management and business, and there will be no opponents and no opponents. The pleasure of this dictatorship will intensify the dictatorship of managers.
If things go on like this, the entire team will fall into a highly centralized and arbitrary situation of managers and leaders, and the voices of opponents will gradually and inadvertently be suppressed.
Technical authority has little negative impact on the team. After all, technical authority is mostly aimed at objective demonstrable technology.
However, management dictatorship may have a great negative impact on the team. Management dictatorship has a strong personal touch, and right and wrong are not the only ones.
If the manager's personal ability to not make mistakes is super strong, this kind of team can barely maintain, but if the manager's personal ability is limited, it will bring the whole team into the abyss because of his own mistakes.