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My faves: 4. Pretending To Know 3. Not even attempting to communicate (or "communicating" through hints.) Particularly in high-pressure situations. 2. Micro
by bonemachine 13y ago
My faves:
4. Pretending To Know
3. Not even attempting to communicate (or "communicating" through hints.) Particularly in high-pressure situations.
2. Microcontrolling. (By which I mean: grabbing control of some low-level aspect of the project, or of the team communications, thinking you know better than the team member who already took action to such an extent that you don't need to explain your actions. See also (1), (2).
And my favorite of all:
1. By your very presence. Seriously -- things like overbearing demeanor, poor tact, sexist or jockish language etc can not only be toxic, but instant invitations for your team members to not only begin their job searches immediately, but look forward to the task with vim and glee.
- jiggy2011 13y agoNumber 2 is what Joel Spolsky calls "hit and run management". "hit and run management because managers tended to pop up unannounced, give some silly order for exactly how they wanted something done, dammit, without giving any thought to the matter, and leave the room for everyone else to pick up the pieces." http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000072.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000072.html This is the most frustrating when you have spent an entire afternoon carefully considering different approaches to solving a problem and figured out all of the non obvious but important edge cases that show why a particular approach won't work to have someone come in and give it five minutes consideration and say "nah, we should do it that way, it'll work out".
- mprovost 13y agoAKA Seagull Managers ("Fly in, make a lot of noise, shit on everything, fly out"). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull_manager http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull_manager