Tag Archive for: Boss

If you have an workaholic manager you have a pretty good chance that he/she expects the same level of dedication from you.

Yes, boss, ask, instead of giving orders, and you have greater chance to receive. It’s a little harder for those with a bossy attitude

This is the path many managers walked on: they only say it once get this and expect you to know everything later on, you have to get this very fast. Or shortly after.

Sometimes recruitment is considered to be a  dull activity, meant to fill up the empty sit. I have written here before, the way I see recruitment and some tips that help with that. Meanwhile, very little has changed, except for the time allotted to recruitment.

I hope you didn’t think there is democracy within the companies you work for and that we each get a vote on how to do our job. This thing with voting applies merely when choosing a location for the end of the year party, not for serious business decisions.

From the beginning of time until today, management meant administration and regulation, either when talking about equally dividing the hunting catch so it would be enough for the whole community and organizing the next hunt; or when talking about modern marketing and innovation components, as Drucker calls them.

If you are not a productive manager, sooner or later your team will be counterproductive and this will affect you and the company.

I have written before that the best thing that can happen to your career is to have a few bad managers. The more the better, just learn something from them

When you are a manager, other than delivering results, you must also make sure you keep your employees, not only the best ones.

If you had to choose between being an extrovert or an introvert, whom will you choose to be? I am not saying you can do that :)