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Why?
by rpedela 13y ago
Why?
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- seiji 13y agoIf you can't learn how to manage a dog, what hope do you have in managing multiple divergent human personalities?
- rpedela 13y agoI am allergic to dogs so never learned how to take care of one. I seem able to manage others effectively and of course always more to learn. Honestly, a pretty odd choice for a book. If you really believe that book is a prerequisite, wouldn't it be better for that person to just get a dog?
- seiji 13y agoIf you "just get a dog," are you assuming everybody has innate knowledge on how to raise and train a dog? It takes—looping back to the main point here—education to know the best ways to take care of a dog. Sure, you can just practice by trial and error for a while, or you could use knowledge from people who have done The Right Thing for years and get ahead of many common mistakes you would have made out of "intuition."
- kyzyl 13y agoSorry but that's a pretty outlandish statement. dogs may occasionally act like people, and they may require management, but they are not people. It doesn't follow that if you can't/haven't managed dogs you have no hope with people. I've done both and it's a different ball game.
- seiji 13y agoI've worked under multiple managers who: gave no positive feedback, set no expectations, and provided no treats. That's really the minimum you should do with dogs or people.
- michaelt 13y agoHave you told your employees that you're managing them based on techniques you learned from a dog training book? How did they react?
- UK-AL 13y ago"gave no positive feedback" "provided no treats" Seriously? If you try to control people pain and reward system, most people see through it and hate you for it. You want them to have a innate feeling of accomplishment. You completed something difficult? And that felt good. You don't need cookies from a master for that. The number one thing you need to do, is set something up which they can measure themselves against. 90% of the time people will enjoy improving it, without any input.
- seiji 13y agoThe world isn't full of self-involved creatives who just want to create to create. Most people like being rewarded (money), promoted (power), and growing in their positions (knowledge).