What Is Valued at Work vs What Matters

The things bad managers value in their employees? * Technical skill * Lack of complaints about stupid ideas managers foist on staff in their bid to be relevant, innovative, responsive to the market * Obedience * Initiative aligned to organization goals, but not too much * Patience while company takes forever to adopt what is obvious Those are my takeaways from watching managers work. But I like this bit of wisdom from Doug “Blue Skunk” Johnson: > …[it is not] the best worker (engineer, teacher, mechanic, nurse, etc.) that gets ahead, but the person who is able to manage and lead good workers and so create an effective workplace. > > Goal setting, project management, problem resolution, budgeting, evaluations are done by educated people - not trained people. **[source: Blue Skunk blog](http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2024/4/9/trained-or-educated.html)\*\* ### Update Special thanks to Cass M for the suggestion of the word “bad” above