'Jaynestown'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Peter Principle xpost!
I cite once again this year's Ig-Nobel winner for the Management Prize:
MANAGEMENT PRIZE: Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, and Cesare Garofalo of the University of Catania, Italy, for demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if they promoted people at random.
Personally, I think companies would be more productive if 6% of all management were Daleks and 8% were Cylons.
ION, I got a flu shot because the government told me to, and now my arm is sore!
I wish I could find the article on this -- it may have been in the NYT -- but there is data on premise that supervisors become less empathetic and more irrational. Power corrupts the soul.
I think companies would be more productive if 6% of all management were Daleks and 8% were Cylons.And perhaps 7% Cybermen, to enhance workflow and productivity?
Perhaps 7% Cybermen, to enhance workflow and productivity?
Good point!
And perhaps companies should hire the occasional Borg consultant....
It's kind of sad, if you don't want to be promoted to a job where you can't be as effective as where you're at, you're not considered to be serious about your career or you're just lazy. But if they left a kickass manager at a mid-level, they'd get all sorts of great effort.
YOU ARE SUPERIOR IN ONLY ONE RESPECT.
WHAT IS THAT?
YOU ARE BETTER AT BEING FIRED.
Hee!
In other management topics -
I had long career planning convos with my reports last week. This a.m., I came in to find a $10 coffee card and a "thank you for being my boss!" card from one of them.
Tomorrow I get to tell them they will not be reporting to me any longer.
AWKWARD.