{"id":1284,"date":"2013-12-30T13:19:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T21:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2014-01-01T12:25:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T20:25:51","slug":"why-its-hard-to-be-a-good-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/why-its-hard-to-be-a-good-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Why it&#8217;s hard to be a good manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">&#8220;[To be a great manager,] you have to reconcile responsibilities that, at first sight, appear contradictory. You have to be able to set consistent expectations for all your people yet at the same time treat each person differently. You have to be able to make each person feel as though he is in a role that uses his talents, while simultaneously challenging him to grow. You have to care about each person, praise each person, and, if necessary, terminate a person you have cared about and praised.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">-Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman<br \/>\n<em>First, Break All The Rules<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[To be a great manager,] you have to reconcile responsibilities that, at first sight, appear contradictory. You have to be able to set consistent expectations for all your people yet at the same time treat each person differently. You have to be able to make each person feel as though he is in a role &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/why-its-hard-to-be-a-good-manager\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why it&#8217;s hard to be a good manager&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}