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.

3.) MANAGING BY POST-IT’S

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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