Today's Business Lessons
Managing types
What kind of manager are you? Did you know that there are many kinds? Let me share with you this list from an unknown writer.
1.) MANAGING BY WALKING FASTER THAN THE EMPLOYEES
This kind of managers you will always see in the corridor, 10 steps
away. “We’ll have to talk” you can hear them say, just as they disappear
around the corner.
2.) MANAGING BY STARING OUT OF THE WINDOW
These managers you usually meet with their backside facing you and
with their hands in their pockets. When you talk to them, their thoughts
keep staring out of the window.
Some managers forget everything. They want to impress you with their
“busyness” by continuously writing on Post-it’s while you are talking.
4.) MANAGING BY DELEGATION TO THE SECRETARY
These managers just delegate everything to the secretary. If he is good, he knows what she must do.
5.) MANAGING BY KNOWING NOTHING
These managers don’t really know anything at all.
They let YOU give answers. Meanwhile, they fill the time with nice anecdotes of irrelevant cases.
6.) MANAGING BY CONCEPTUAL THINKING
These people try to explain the present from a theoretical view of
the far future. The idea that this will never work completely satisfies
them; they will always have something to talk about.
7.) MANAGING BY HIDING INFORMATION
Information hiders are aware of the market value of strictly-kept
secret information. You must be very thankful to get any information at
all.
8.) MANAGING BY DOING EXACTLY WHAT THE BOSS SAYS
These managers prevent their bosses from creative thinking. Else they get more work to do.
9.) MANAGING BY WALKING ONE FOOT BEHIND THE BOSS
In hierarchical organizations, you can watch such groups walking in
the corridor – the more equal managers are directly followed by the
lesser equal managers, and so on.
10.) MANAGING BY SMILING AND WEARING NICE SUITS
If you drink beer with them, lunch with them, smile to them and also wear nice suits, nothing can stop your career anymore.
11.) MANAGING BY STUDYING
Despite their attendance of all kinds of studies and congresses, they
still belong to category 5. The more they learn, the farther away they
get from the practice.
12.) MANAGING BY CREATING VAGUE OVERHEAD SHEETS
Do you know those? Those sheets with some big arrows, boxes or
circles? These sheets provide the ultimate proof of their overall
brilliance.
13.) MANAGING BY OPEN DOOR AND EMPTY ROOM
This is a major improvement of the older “Open Door” management
style. Now you can really walk in and out anytime you want. Nobody ever
knows where these managers are.
14.) MANAGING BY SPEAKING WITH OTHER MANAGERS
This kind of managing is very popular. It will give them, within a
few hours, the same information as an employee can tell them in 15
minutes.
15.) MANAGING BY HAVING A NON-SUPPORTING INFRASTRUCTURE
In an organization with a hopeless infrastructure, managers are
really necessary. These managers will naturally prevent the organization
from having a better infrastructure.
16) BUA MANAGEMENT (BY USING ABBREVIATIONS)
This management style is ATRASACWOC. (Adopted To Reach A Shorter And Clearer Way Of Communication)
17.) MANAGING BY USING BUZZ WORDS
These managers like to bluff your head off with hip, nearly undefined terms.
18.) MANAGING BY REORGANIZATION
If they think there is nothing more to organize, they reorganize.
19.) MANAGING BY BELIEVING
These managers must be spiritually educated, because they have no clues at all.
20.) MANAGING BY FORGETTING PROMISES
If you remind them about one of their promises, the priority of that promise is too low to remember.
Does your manager fit into one of these categories? How about you, what kind of manager are you?
Hopefully, you’re the good kind, the kind who doesn’t come to the
office to be served, but to serve.
That’s not only biblical, that’s
sensible too.
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