Do first-time managers ruin your career?

By Binu Paul, SiliconIndia   |   Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 04:20 IST   |    28 Comments
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4. Focus Only on Tasks Not on People
New managers tend to live their previous routines where their sole focus was to accomplish the given tasks. However, they fail to realize that developing interpersonal relationship is an integral quality of leaders. The ideal motto of a manager is to help his subordinates to accomplish the tasks in an outstanding way and not just to focus on the budgets, reports or planning. The career of subordinates depends on the managers, and the inexperienced managers tend to make things very complex which will make life hard of the teammates. They fail to become the people managers, but rather become just task managers without realizing the needs of their subordinates.