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> Sorry for those 1% of you out there who are actually useful and efficient leaders/managers; you know who you are 100% of managers nodding as they read this

ffsm8 3y ago
True, but my gut says that there is a selection bias of people reading comments on such an article and being in that 1% Might just be in my head though.
- vermilingua 3y ago
  Are you a manager by any chance?
  - ffsm8 3y ago
    No, but the article was dishing out quiet hard, so the worst offenders wouldn't have interacted further. At least that would've been my expectation
ludicity 3y ago
I recorded the first episode of a podcast to go with the blog today. It was literally while you were typing this. I made a joke (that is almost not a joke) about my N-2 rule. You can say all N managers in any organization are bad apart from two of them. Of course, managers want to assert that they're the good one (and some of them actually are), but they can't if you say one person is good, because to claim that spot would be to throw all your colleagues under the bus. But if you assert that you're one of the two good ones, then they can all claim to be one of the good ones without upsetting a specific person. This is obviously not how it works at all, but I was very proud of myself.
- appplication 3y ago
  In the Air Force we used to get force stratified based on our peers in our performance reports. It would include things like “#1 of 15 Lts in the squadron”. Everyone had a ranking, but you only found out where you stood once a year when your performance review came out. There was a saying that I think also applies here: “Everybody knows who #1 is, and everybody thinks they’re #2”.
maCDzP 3y ago
I am a manager, definitely nodded my head and patted my own back.
Shorn 3y ago
> 100% of managers nodding as they read this Made me laugh - but I think that's not quite fair. 1% of managers know they're useless and inefficient. Ironically, that puts them in the top 2%.

ffsm8 3y ago

True, but my gut says that there is a selection bias of people reading comments on such an article and being in that 1% Might just be in my head though.

vermilingua 3y ago
Are you a manager by any chance?
- ffsm8 3y ago
  No, but the article was dishing out quiet hard, so the worst offenders wouldn't have interacted further. At least that would've been my expectation

ludicity 3y ago

I recorded the first episode of a podcast to go with the blog today. It was literally while you were typing this. I made a joke (that is almost not a joke) about my N-2 rule. You can say all N managers in any organization are bad apart from two of them. Of course, managers want to assert that they're the good one (and some of them actually are), but they can't if you say one person is good, because to claim that spot would be to throw all your colleagues under the bus. But if you assert that you're one of the two good ones, then they can all claim to be one of the good ones without upsetting a specific person. This is obviously not how it works at all, but I was very proud of myself.

appplication 3y ago
In the Air Force we used to get force stratified based on our peers in our performance reports. It would include things like “#1 of 15 Lts in the squadron”. Everyone had a ranking, but you only found out where you stood once a year when your performance review came out. There was a saying that I think also applies here: “Everybody knows who #1 is, and everybody thinks they’re #2”.

maCDzP 3y ago

I am a manager, definitely nodded my head and patted my own back.

Shorn 3y ago

> 100% of managers nodding as they read this Made me laugh - but I think that's not quite fair. 1% of managers know they're useless and inefficient. Ironically, that puts them in the top 2%.