GOOD ENGINEERS AND GOOD MANAGERS

Well greetings to all for the day. Though the ideas mentioned here are to the best of beliefs from people but with all due respect to differ from the same. In the topic there seems to be a talk about GOOD managers & GOOD enggineers. Well I generally start with a question. Here it is: Are we talking about the good or the best? For I am an enggineer and now upto some extent a manager also. My major in studies being Mechanical and work being Sales. Yes, I have shifted from one field to the other, but have experienced both the fields, latter to some extent. First, engineers will from classrooms because that is where they are made. Where else do you find one? And whether it is being a manager or an enggineer, it requires a lot of honing to get the fundas straight. I would like to ask if any of you have seen a fresher coming in from any feild getting a job for a manager except for the MBA's because management is what they learn there just like an enggineer in any class room.  And not all from the either field get selected. I wish this answers the question asked in the starting. We all are suceptible to faults and no matter how in bred we are for a particular work, we need practice for mastering it.

Yes the bright ones go and make a name because they excel in their respective fields but at a faster rate and that too in both the fields.

Coming to the point of management. I think an enggineer in a working profile has to manage more things than a manager in a sales profile. To give an eg: A Senior enggineer working on a production floor of a reputed MNC has to: Manage & forsee the labour requirements over a perod of time ensuring nobody is on OT(overtime), see to the quality of material being produced, see to the inventory management, bring down the cost of production with any innovative ideas that may include minute details regarding the way a worker works or improvising on the packaging to reduce the weight for the freight and then recording all the data on daily basis. It is just that the factors that he managing are still in his control whereas in our case we have some uncontrolled factors. But it doesn't make him manage less!

Eg: I might know about all the procedures to my company's working,but I need to do it first hand to do know it the next time.

And i might tell to my subordinates when I am a full manager!