What Makes a Smart Manager?
Management-Issues summarizes and adds some insightful commentary to a one-page article by Mitch McCrimmon entitled Smart Management.
The essence of both articles is that the best managers are not doers, but enablers; they give employees the encouragement, tools, and the (business) environment to do their best work. They delegate, yet take charge of situations.
This reminds me of another post I just read at Lean Startups.
So we have some things to keep in mind when we are tempted to micro-manage or jump in and do the (once-delegated) task ourselves.
