Managing People Is a Distinct Skill

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"I've worked a lot of different types of jobs, but I definitely had never worked something," she said. "Managing people is a discrete skill. It can be learned, but it is very different than being really good at whatever thing that you do in your job" She says many organizations are deeply dysfunctional because they have people doing this work with no ability to do so.

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