Management of people requires a very empathetic, highly personalized approach. It's really all about motivation and the levers you can use are not always in line with the company objectives. High performance companies and teams are usually the ones that can find a way to sync up the people objectives with the company objectives for a long enough time to deliver products and services into a marketplace.
Meanwhile, organizational management is much more of a systems thinking approach that requires classical engineering skills. It requires technical and domain expertise plus intimate knowledge of the existing practices, processes, and environments.
Which makes sense as to why most managers in the software development field fail. They know the organizational side of things well but the people side is overlooked. And now the spectrum is swinging towards people managers without the requisite organizational skills and we're left with a new set of problems.
Management of people requires a very empathetic, highly personalized approach. It's really all about motivation and the levers you can use are not always in line with the company objectives. High performance companies and teams are usually the ones that can find a way to sync up the people objectives with the company objectives for a long enough time to deliver products and services into a marketplace.
Meanwhile, organizational management is much more of a systems thinking approach that requires classical engineering skills. It requires technical and domain expertise plus intimate knowledge of the existing practices, processes, and environments.
Which makes sense as to why most managers in the software development field fail. They know the organizational side of things well but the people side is overlooked. And now the spectrum is swinging towards people managers without the requisite organizational skills and we're left with a new set of problems.