People are Born Good Managers or Bad Managers Discuss
People are Born Good Managers or Bad Managers. Discuss. Is management a skill that people are born with or is it acquired through a learning process? Further still can a person be born with good or bad management skills? ... Some of these skills or abilities people can be born with, others are learnt through education or come with experience. ... Using this information I will be able to justify my belief that people are not born good or bad managers but that they become one or the other over a period of time. ... “Decision-making is complicated for managers as it involves selection of choices, in an environment in which there are multiple criteria of satisfaction, many intangibles, risk and uncertainty, long-term implications, inputs from different specialists and disciplines, group influences and value judgements. ... The first is planning, which is an ability that everybody is born with. ... If a working day is not properly planned downtime will arise when people are unsure what they should be doing or when they should carry out a duty. ... As I have mentioned it is an ability we are naturally born with as humans. However, to what degree of skill we are born with will vary from one person to another. ... A good planner can be someone that will not necessarily find the perfect order of jobs straight away but can see quickly if a chosen order is the most useful way or if it can be improved. A lot to do with planning can be associated with the second skill that a good manager will need which is time management. They need to ensure that deadlines are met and people do not spend too long or not enough time on a particular task. ... However, I believe that this is not a skill anybody is born with and although it can, to a point, be taught good time management is really acquired through experience. ... Thirdly, I will look at the ability to prioritise which is imperative within good management. Some of us are born with an analytical mind whereby we can stand back, look at a set of tasks in hand and decide which must take priority. ... The ability to weigh up the pros and cons of performing a task, and knowing what the opportunity costs are in doing so is needed to be good at prioritising.