When you say an effective manager versus a I think you use the word political right yeah it sounds like you're saying the political manager is just an empty suit they're not capable. So what do you mean by do you mean political as the empty suit or do youmean political as the oblique skills that you referenced let's do both hand and call it a continuum? The first one you described would be at the far end ofPolitical continuum What you want to do is move toward the center which you moved the person in terms of those what they call people or orchestration skills yes uh it feel us um I like that Michael, please help me clarify your point here.
Welcome to Voices from the Middle, Mike Jay is a colleague who has been a professional coach since 1988. He used to live in the great state of Texas, but has moved on. Mike has really surpassed the Gladwell test of mastery and exceeded the 10,000 hours of coaching other people. He has been working with training coaches in 45 different countries. 1000s of coaches have been trained by Mike at this point and he has written a couple of books on coaching, one of them is called "Coach 2 the Bottom Line" in 1999.