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Art of Worldly Wisdom
Chapter 104
Managing Projects

Jakub Jirs

Understanding and channeling the right people into the right positions requires great skill, insight, and perseverance. Each line of work does best with at least slightly different skill-sets. Discerning and matching the best person for each specific task defines management competence and expertise. The easiest project-matches involve honesty, courage, integrity; the hardest require skill, cleverness, subtlety. And the more foolish the employee, the more challenge in directing them. It takes double the sense to direct those without much. The most respected occupations include variety, independence, meaningfulness, and freedom; the least respected have the most unchanging hours and routine, the most supervision.

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