LINK: 10 Reasons Your Team Hates You (They Just Won't Say It To Your Face)

Here's a nice link to Mike Figliuolo's blog entry in his blog, the thoughtLEADERS.

It's quite a good read. He talks about the top ten reasons on why managers are hated. (And also provides tips to help managers from committing them!)

I particularly like the following:

6. You never relax.

5. You micromanage.

4. You're a suck-up.

2. You're above getting your hands dirty.

Unfortunately, I think what Mike did here was enumerate the bad practices that otherwise "good" managers do (that of course, makes them bad.) In short, these are things that can be fixed with effort and a little attitude change.

I'm going to add other reasons why people hate their managers.

• You have no idea what you're doing. Let's face the facts here. There are times when people are hired or promoted for the wrong reasons. This results to managers that are not only incompetent in "management" but are also incompetent everywhere else.
• You don't acknowledge the fact that you don't know what you're doing. As it sounds, this is an offshoot of the earlier bullet point. You see, even the most ill-equipped moron can actually manage people. It is just necessary to admit you don't know, learn, and delegate.

And now for the advice section. If you happen to possess both of the points mentioned earlier, then, PLEASE STEP DOWN. The office space you're consuming is much more valuable than you are. Hell, you are wasting oxygen.