--- title: Other Than Managing People, I Love Being a Manager description: If you’re in a management seat for the wrong reasons or have assigned a seat to a manager who doesn’t belong there, you owe it to the people being managed to make a change so that every management seat is filled with someone who gets it, wants it, and has great management capability. --- [EOS Worldwide Blog | Tips & Advice for Entrepreneurs and Leaders of Growing Companies](https://info.eosworldwide.com/blog) # [Other Than Managing People, I Love Being a Manager](https://info.eosworldwide.com/blog/other-than-managing-people-i-love-being-manager) Written by [Rene Boer](https://info.eosworldwide.com/blog/author/rene-boer) | March 29, 2018 Great managers are hard to find. Great managers have a true gift and a passion for getting the most out of people. Great managers possess a unique ability that is not in everyone. Having worked with hundreds of managers over the years, I now see clearly the ones who truly want to be great managers and the ones who are doing it for other reasons, e.g., ego, advancement, having nowhere else to go. ## What’s Your Motivation to be a Manager? One of my clients a few years back – the owner of the business – took over the sales manager role for his company because he thought it would be fun. He was very upset with me when I challenged his motivation and long-term ability to be a great, consistent, and enduring manager of his salespeople. Many years later, as he sits in the visionary seat of his fast-growing company with a great manager in the Sales VP seat, he thanks me for the brutal honesty and admits his motive was not in the best interest of the company. A person who says, “Other than having to discipline people, keep expectations clear, repeat myself often, run meetings, and hire, fire, review and hold people accountable, I like being a manager,” is not a great manager, and something bad is going to happen. Not always maliciously or purposely, but it’s going to happen. ## Managers Must Love LMA™ Great managers are passionate about LMA (Leadership, Management, and Accountability) and truly enjoy LMA-ing the teams that report to them. If you’re sitting in a management seat for the wrong reasons or have put a manager in a seat who doesn’t belong there, you owe it to those people being managed to make a change. Make sure that every seat in your accountability chart that requires a manager is filled with a person who gets it, wants it, and has the capacity to be a great manager. If not, you must make the change. ## Next Steps - Download the [How to Be a Great Boss Toolkit](https://traction.eosworldwide.com/great-boss-toolkit/) to gain access to free Leadership and Management Self-Assessment tools that help you determine if you have what it takes to be a great manager. - Download a free chapter of the book, *[How to Be a Great Boss](http://www.beagreatboss.com/),* to learn more about leading, managing, and creating accountability. - Check out our infographic - [Are you a Great Boss or a Not-So-Great Boss](https://info.eosworldwide.com/blog/great-boss-infographic)? **   [View full post](https://info.eosworldwide.com/blog/other-than-managing-people-i-love-being-manager) ```json { "@context" : "http://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "author" : { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "Rene Boer" }, "dateModified" : "2018-03-28T20:44:26.762Z", "datePublished" : "2018-03-29T21:00:00Z", "headline" : "Other Than Managing People, I Love Being a Manager", "image" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "height" : 365, "url" : "https://www.eosworldwide.com/hubfs/mgmt.jpg", "width" : 580 }, "mainEntityOfPage" : "https://info.eosworldwide.com/blog/other-than-managing-people-i-love-being-manager", "publisher" : { "@type" : "Organization", "logo" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "height" : 60.0, "url" : "https://www.eosworldwide.com/hubfs/social-suggested-images/Logo_small-1.png", "width" : 68.965515 }, "name" : "EOS Worldwide Blog
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