Damage Assessment

It would be difficult to calculate the amount of damage that management inflicts or facilitates when it:

1. Promotes the office politician over the most highly respected and thoroughly competent person in the department;
2. Fails to remove a person who drags down morale on a daily basis;
3. Uses wink-wink, nudge-nudge hiring quotas while claiming to be nondiscriminatory;
4. Stresses technical legal compliance far more than adherence to high ethical standards;
5. Fails to listen to employees;
6. Tolerates abusive people who meet sales or production goals;
7. Squelches creativity;
8. Mocks someone;
9. Hogs important information;
10. Fails to train people;
11. Operates a caste system;
12. Sends people to Siberia;
13. Punishes candor;
14. Lets important decisions drift;
15. Believes its own publicity;
16. Acts on heavily filtered information;
17. Never gets out to the field;
18. Reorganizes and then keeps reorganizing;
19. Underestimates the competition;
20. Regards people as expendable; and
21. Becomes smug.