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Welcome to the Conscious Managing blog. This is a very specific approach to management based on the principles of connection and contribution.
Welcome to the Conscious Managing blog. This is a very specific approach to management based on the principles of connection and contribution.
I failed. My first experience managing an employee was not what I expected. It was painful. My confidence went from high to low. After a while, I dreaded facing my direct report. I thought I was going to be a great manager. I had a business degree. I had my project management certification. I had managed projects successfully. I had read lots of books and articles. I enjoyed good managers and suffered through bad managers. But both my employee and I ended up hating the experience.
What went wrong? I had to do a lot of soul searching, and I was determined to understand and grow from the experience. That set me on the quest for learning about what management is and how people achieve mastery.
I kept an open mind and a determination to break the code of management mastery. I continued adding to my management experience and started asking for advice on specific situations. I read more books, got my MBA from a top-rated Ivy League university, and studied the best managers.
What I discovered changed my approach in ways I had never imagined. Many generally accepted practices that I had embraced -- that so many others still embrace -- turned out to be wrong. The most useful discoveries emerged in unexpected fields like psychology, quality, and parenting.
Some of the most distressing periods of life can come from having to work for bad managers. If I can support managers in their lifelong journey toward mastery, we will elevate the practice of management.
--David Kachoui
