re: Why do new managers always come in and want to change everything?

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Sometimes it’s the result of inexperience, sometimes it’s the result of misguided ambition and ego.

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Yep a lot of times new managers are not given proper guidance.

I had a really good mentor when I moved to management. He told me two things to remember.

1. You manage people, not problems. If you manage the people correctly then the problems will be addressed. If you try to manage the problems, then you won’t get them fixed and you will have personnel issues - making your job infinitely harder.

2. It’s not your job to know everything. It’s your job to recognize when you don’t know something, and who/where you can gather that information .