Best Manager

I came across this question in LinkedIn and was pondering over it for sometime.

I actually consider all my managers as good and actually learnt things that they were good at. Now each one had one or couple of good qualities in them and they also had some negatives or attributes that I did not find good, probably I didnt find them exhibit those qualities prominently.

Now how would you define "Best" Manager? A manager is supposed to manage the resources in the "best" manner. That's the reason they are called as Managers otherwise they would simply be "Supervisors". A quality one team member may like may not be liked by others, and its impossible to please all. If you try to do that, then you are not a good manager.

I learnt a lot from all my managers, except one, whom I wish I never crossed paths and consider all of them as good managers, as each one thought me one or couple of qualities to lead and manage well. I learnt about empathisizing, driving, leading, being firm, visionary, etc from different people whom I reported to.

Actually its a good exercise to note down positives and negatives of all the managers that we reported to and make a list of attributes that we need to and should not follow to being good and effective managers, atleast in our beliefs. This list could actually be appended as and when we remember any good or not so good qualities of these managers. I think I should start doing something like this.

Someone once told me, the best way to manage people is to understand how you would like to be managed and who else could be a better person to tell the good and bad qualities that we feel, we should have to be good managers.

Well, good morning world, a new manager is born today......