What is management? (baby don't hurt me)

[Nessus]

no more

If I was ever a manager, and I have no intention of ever being one, things would never get to this stage.

If you're going to do anything sensible with your PhD, you'll be managing some kind of team of people at some point

In case you haven't noticed, I can't tolerate stupidity. At least with students, I have the authority to get them to do the work and have incentives to get them to move in that direction. With workers, you have far less leverage, and you rarely have full authority to hire and fire them.

Poor students. You'll make a pretty poor teacher with that kind of attitude. I take it you're the "all stick, no carrots type"?

And if you think that teaching isn't a managing job, then you have even less of a clue about the subject than I previously suspected.

Actually I was thinking about guiding students as management too, Low-key. You are in a position of authority over them, as you noted, but you also have to be motivating and guide their learning process. It's still also management, at least over here. And intolerant teachers/mentors/whatever probably aren't most conductive to an open learning environment for fruitful research. Are they?