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The Cure for the Management Migraine

Just this morning I was sitting with a client chatting through the management challenges that he experiences in his company. I don't have to tell you the long list of problems that he brought to the table - you have them all every day too. They were all related to people management! 

As we were talking I found it curious that this is the same discussion that I had had with this manager last year and the year before. Probably even the year before that as well! And on reflection, whenever I speak one on one with managers, these same problems rear their heads. And this, year after year!

So it seems that a client of mine was right a few years ago when he said, "if it wasn't that I have to employ people in the business, it would be quite fun to work here!" what a sad lament, that the very activity that is meant to make our lives as managers easier, is in fact the very activity that makes our lives more difficult. And stressful too!

So while we were talking and my mind was wandering down memory lane, this client says to me, "Mark, I find it very interesting that in just about every article that you have written and every course that you give, you stress the importance of employing the right people in the first place. What am I doing wrong?" I said to him "John, you have a strategy for just about every single thing in this business. But what is your recruiting strategy? Do you have one?" Read full article