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How NOT to appoint managers. Beware of specialists.

Matteo Cervelli
11 min readAug 16, 2023

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The biggest challenge for organizations is people care. Indeed, it’s the most valuable asset for creating a never-ending story. An organization without the right people certainly has only that sooner or later, it will die.

And the question is: “how do you find the right people”?

In my job as the CEO of 8 figure business, I need to answer this question repeatedly as my daily job.

The CEO’s most important jobs are to decide and execute the right strategy and to create the best possible co-leaders in the company.

But it’s time to face the truth: the more someone is a well-established leader in doing the hard work, the more they would become a bad manager or leader.

There is not a single drop of sweat or an extra hour to rack your brains in front of a product that will make you a better manager. It’s not the sheer volume of problem-ridden emails you bring to your boss or the brilliance of the new screws you’ve designed that makes you a leadership champion.

Leadership is a different subject than technical skills. A leader can bring someone from drawing lines on a computer to managing a team that gives life to a full product from a 3D printer. The leader’s…

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Matteo Cervelli
Matteo Cervelli

Written by Matteo Cervelli

Business Growth Engineer | I share tips to scale business, manage change and be a successful leader | My Why is to trigger people's for a beautiful world.

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