- Let your associates filter all of the people and memos that get near your desk.
- To the greatest degree possible, use tightly controlled meetings as the sole venue for contact with lower level employees.
- Pop in on farewell ceremonies for no more than 15 minutes of chit chat and only attend events for white collar employees.
- Be better known by community movers and shakers than by the employees in the adjoining department.
- Revise the organization chart every eight months.
- Be more interested in preventing a union than in addressing the issues that may create a union.
- Exile or fire independent thinkers.
- Schedule, then cancel, feedback meetings.
- Scoff at employee attitude surveys.
- Regard complaints as a sign of disloyalty.
- Always travel with a retinue of the ambitious and the compliant.
Commentary by management consultant Michael Wade on Leadership, Ethics, Management, and Life
Friday, March 30, 2007
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2 comments:
Excellent Michael! DF.
Thanks, DF.
I'd like to think that I've personally avoided these mistakes but unfortunately....
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