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Originally posted by uzlessManaging an office is much like hockey. Managers need to be sure people like YOU who don't know 'The Game' are doing the right thing.
When did this become the new standard for managers? It seems to be getting more and more prevelant. Why have managers lost trust in their staff to do the job without constantly looking over their employee's shoulder?
You can't be trusted if you've never played the management game.
YOU GOT THAT?
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Originally posted by uzlessIt's a reflection on them. Probably the Peter Principal.
When did this become the new standard for managers? It seems to be getting more and more prevelant. Why have managers lost trust in their staff to do the job without constantly looking over their employee's shoulder?
Originally posted by uzlessWhy do those crappy people always get picked to manage people? I don't know. Nobody gives a rat's ass, maybe? I've been there, but luckily my boss for the last three years is not like that. He lets us all work our own style as long as it all gets done.
When did this become the new standard for managers? It seems to be getting more and more prevelant. Why have managers lost trust in their staff to do the job without constantly looking over their employee's shoulder?
My sympathies. I had a boss once who was Bipolar. That was fun.
Originally posted by uzlessposted by uzless to RedHotPawn (not RedHotPorn!) at 9:57 AM on a Wednesday.
When did this become the new standard for managers? It seems to be getting more and more prevelant. Why have managers lost trust in their staff to do the job without constantly looking over their employee's shoulder?
Originally posted by uzlessInsightful assessment, Uzless. 'Managers' for whatever the reason have gradually become bureaucratic 'yes men and women' who possess remarkable technical compentence but are emotionally insecure, and whose primary purpose on the team has been reduced to hand around the elbow administrivia, unnecessary nonsense meetings and suffocating procedural control.
When did this become the new standard for managers? It seems to be getting more and more prevelant. Why have managers lost trust in their staff to do the job without constantly looking over their employee's shoulder?
They've abdicated essential responsibilities of leadership... clear competitive market vision, decision flexibility, correct priorities, catalytic motivation built upon mutual trust, realistic/stretch goal setting, ongoing professional growth of their people. They are also victims of fuzzy short term thinking and myopic directives from weak executives occupying nervous corner offices.
What you describe is the inevitable consequence of leadership having become numb to the cardinal principle of its only mandate, which is to lead. As above, below. Little wonder companies across the western hemisphere are now less than nimble. -gb
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Originally posted by Grampy Bobbyyou are probably kidding here ... there is NO requirement for a manager in a large corporation (or probly anywhere) to have any technical competence WHATSOEVER. and lots of them don't.
Insightful assessment, Uzless. 'Managers' for whatever the reason have gradually become bureaucratic 'yes men and women' who possess remarkable technical compentence but are emotionally insecure, and whose primary purpose on the team has been reduced to hand around the elbow administrivia, unnecessary nonsense meetings and suffocating procedural control ...[text shortened]... emisphere are now less than nimble. -gb
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Originally posted by uzlessWere you at work when you wrote this?
When did this become the new standard for managers? It seems to be getting more and more prevelant. Why have managers lost trust in their staff to do the job without constantly looking over their employee's shoulder?
If yes the, that your answer.
If no, work has invaded your private time.
