Nairobi, Feb. 10 -- Sometime last month one of the finest journalists I know told me he avoids management functions these days, because, he claimed, he's an awful manager.
He brought me up short. A clever and sensitive man who writes brilliantly and has a personal manner of some kindness and wisdom, I have always seen him as a natural manager.
But his comment set me thinking, largely because of some recent bad experiences of my own as a manager.
Then a second prompt for thought followed, from a former junior employee, who, like many others, left badly, giving no notice, disappearing with projects half done and unrecorded.
My journalist friend had given a speech about how much I have given to those I worked with and how many had benefitt...