Today's managers need to be masters of making things happen. You can be the best analyst in the world or the most highly organized executive on the planet, but if the level of excitement you generate can be likened more to a dish rag than to a spark plug, then you may never have what it takes to create a truly great environment.
Great managers create far more energy than they consume.
Instead of taking energy from the organization, the best managers channel and amplify energy to the organization. This is a vital function of management because even the greatest managers in the world cannot succeed all by themselves. To achieve the goals of the organization, managers depend on the skills that their employees offer. Effective management is the leveraging of the efforts of every member of a work group toward a common purpose. If you are constantly doing your employees' work for them, not only have you lost the advantage of leverage that your employees can provide, but you are also putting yourself on the path to stress.