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Why your best technician makes your worst manager
Self-Leadership · June 2026

Why Your Best Technician Makes Your Worst Manager

Promote on competence and you get a manager who can run the line but freezes the moment a performance conversation needs to happen. The cost isn't visible on a P&L — until it is. Here's where the pattern starts.

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