Management Techniques To Chew On

Continuing from where I left yesterday ...

Most of the management techniques we learn by absorption. Our past and present bosses teach us what to do. We subconsciously absorb all. And why? Because somewhere deep within the actions taken by your bosses resonates with your thought. You are also impressed by the results that flow from the decisions that they take. Or perhaps you are in awe of your boss and s/he just can't go wrong. So, slowly but surely you firm up your management techniques. In other words you become a clone.

How does one break away from this cloning process? By understanding that we can also learn not only what to do from our bosses but also what not to do. You may or may not be in a position to question decisions taken by your boss, but surely you can decide which decisions make sense. Surely you can also decide that even if a decision made lot of sense, it made sense because if the context and not because the decision per se.

So there we have it. We learn by doing what is correct and also learn by not doing what is not correct and also by understanding the context in which some management techniques work and when it does not.

Just so that you get a flavour of what I am talking about, here are a dozen of tongue-firmly-in-cheek (or not) management techniques for you to follow: I am a bad manager. Let me know what you think of these.