Being great at your job does not make you a great. Okay, sorry. 58. Being great at your job does not make you a great manager. . So this typically happens in very technical roles. You may have an amazing engineer or someone who's great in finance. They can knock out a spreadsheet or write code in their sleep.

But then as you try and develop them and put them into a managerial role, they really struggle. And there's a lot of reasons for this. When you are really good at doing something, it's very hard to stop doing that. But the purpose of being a manager is to guide and direct and nurture other people to do the job that you were.