Manager/Director

Originally posted by mikelom
As a manager would you ask a sub-ordinate to do something you can't do yourself?

I believe, as a manager myself, that I should not ask a member of my staff to do something I cannot do myself.

However, I find, more and more on the increase, Directors delegating work, that they could in fact not do themselves, to managers who are capable but not in the p ...[text shortened]... d enable them, or is it a Directors prerogative to ask a manager to do stuff he himself can't?

You must be very new to management, or work at a very low level of such. I suppose a fast-food manager at the store level must know everything, but the higher up you go, the more critical your organization and leadership skills become, and knowing how to do everything is not only unimportant, it's impossible. Thinking that you shouldn't ask someone to do their job if you don't know how to do it is incredibly naive and bush-league, it sounds like something a 20 year old business major would say.

Sorry if that sounds harsh.