Do High Performers Make Good Managers?

Jennifer Banks
5 min readJan 24, 2020
Photo by Brooke Lark on Unsplash

I’ve had some great managers in my day, and I’ve had some terrible ones. I’ve been managed and I’ve managed others. Do high performers make good managers? No. High performance is not an adequate indicator of quality management. The skills needed to be an effective leader of people are different from those that make a high performer.

Product / Industry Knowledge ≠ People Knowledge

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Jennifer Banks

A working mom who thought by now I’d have everything figured out… twitter.com/@writer208