Sixty-eight per cent said they had fallen into the role by chance. And 40% admitted they had not wanted the responsibility of managing people at all. Very few have formal qualifications.
Ya know - that really irritates me. I love managing people and I have some pretty decent qualifications AND I would bend over backwards to get into another people-managing role (rather than leaving it to chance.)
Life sure ain't fair. Bah humbug! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
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Submitted by Chris Donnachie on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 6:02 pm
Argh!
Sixty-eight per cent said they had fallen into the role by chance.
And 40% admitted they had not wanted the responsibility of managing people at all. Very few have formal qualifications.
Ya know - that really irritates me. I love managing people and I have some pretty decent qualifications AND I would bend over backwards to get into another people-managing role (rather than leaving it to chance.)
Life sure ain't fair. Bah humbug!
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...not quite
This is the British disease. We promote people until they are unable to do a job. Then we leave them there!
Chris