Management
Oct. 2nd, 2004 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerIt's interesting that so many people see management as unnecessary, useless, incompetent and generally pointless.
Many people wonder what their managers actually do to earn their (obviously) inflated salaries. It's interesting to note that given half a chance managers do exactly the same about _their_ managers. At all levels of society people assume it's obvious how much work they put in, and equally obvious that the next layer up are just playing golf all day.
In some ways management is like tech support - when everything's going well nobody even thinks about them. When things are going badly, everyone wonders why they're so incompetent. I mean, sure, there _are_ incompetent managers out there, but even the most competent ones make mistakes, and by and large it's only those mistakes that get remembered. I mean, the rest of the time they just hand down orders and make graphs - how hard can it be?
(The answer, as far as I can tell, is "pretty darn hard")
Many people wonder what their managers actually do to earn their (obviously) inflated salaries. It's interesting to note that given half a chance managers do exactly the same about _their_ managers. At all levels of society people assume it's obvious how much work they put in, and equally obvious that the next layer up are just playing golf all day.
In some ways management is like tech support - when everything's going well nobody even thinks about them. When things are going badly, everyone wonders why they're so incompetent. I mean, sure, there _are_ incompetent managers out there, but even the most competent ones make mistakes, and by and large it's only those mistakes that get remembered. I mean, the rest of the time they just hand down orders and make graphs - how hard can it be?
(The answer, as far as I can tell, is "pretty darn hard")
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Date: 2004-10-02 11:25 am (UTC)Now, working for an international advertising agency, I LOVE MY MANAGEMENT.
I get to make pretty designs all day and they take care of all the other crap...sales, clients, accounting, deals, etc.
I will never bitch about management again.
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Date: 2004-10-03 01:29 am (UTC)I've seen managers who are crap. But the management team at Diageo has some really competent people.
You've been reading too much dilbert?
Poll it, Mr Pollster...
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Date: 2004-10-03 02:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-04 05:45 am (UTC)but that is one of their jobs to take the responsibility for the problems of the team/group..
However there are so manty organisations with too many levels in there.. and so manay shite managers in the wrong roles, as they were either sucking the right body parts, or just damn lucky..
But I also,belive in most cases, the good managers always apear on the radar too