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Once you are promoted to a new position, you may expect it to come along with the respect of your colleagues or superiors.

Even though for many employees it may sound weird, a manager should trust you. This is how an environment where mutual respect is quickly built looks like.

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