You CAN'T Manage People

No one wakes up in the morning and wants to be managed. People wake up in the morning and they want to be led. And the reality is you can't manage people. You can manage a process, you can manage a project, you can manage a schedule, but you lead people. It is a human function. Usually we treat management as a position or a rank in an organization, but leadership is a responsibility, and it's the awesome responsibility to see those around us rise. Because leadership is a skill. We have to learn it. Most of us do the jobs that we're good at, and we probably had some sort of training along the way. And if you are good at your job, you will get promoted, and you'll eventually get promoted into a position where you no longer do the job that you were trained to do. You now have to do a new job called leadership. And we often get little to no training on how to do that job. It's a skill, and the skill must be studied. You know, all the best leaders I've ever met study it, and they never, ever think of themselves as experts. They always think of themselves as students.