Trust
Managers are supposed to ‘deal’ not manage- this person quoted at lunch. He was pissed at the school kid treatment, micro management i.e. manager intruding in to every little thing,every email he sends out and every proposal (as a sponsoring edi)…this person and another teammate of mine (she has edited a very famous book) are efficient and dedicated. Manager’s lack of trust is just killing ‘em.
They have a few valid points:
Sponsoring/editing is their job, manager may tell them what is to be done ... leave the how part with the person immediately concerned (who has been executing since a couple of years)
Sponsoring/ editing is creative/dynamic. Everything can not be pre determined and time tables framed would need to be rehashed. Rigid frameworks are bottlenecks and result of being too assuming/idealistic
Employees who share years of common trust would instantly find out wat’s going on in the new manager’s mind. He can’t hold meetings with three employees individually at 9, 9:30, and 10am respectively and think that he has spoken to them separately/individually
And last but not the least, if he can’t trust them he can’t work with ‘em, not with dignity,not for long.
these guys will sort it out
...my immediate boss is a blessing and I am able to work cuz she is (apt for an editor) no nonsense, realistic, concise n precise in everything. If she finds a mistake she simply suggests the correction and checks for consistency :)
At home
The lady stayed at our place for a night …she’d left when I came back from office the next day. She will come back in a day or two for… may be a week’s stay. Welcome she’d be ...i did not ask her wat happened or why, and she never felt the need to tell…we did not exchange many words(just comfy in each other’s presence)
:) she got up at 5 that morn n did Yoga…me cooked Jackfruit and the courtesy was reciprocated, women at our place cooked their specialties and it was a little party last night. Four of us 'd gone for jogging and yeah now they are all sleeping with achy bums- stretched too far I guess
They have a few valid points:
Sponsoring/editing is their job, manager may tell them what is to be done ... leave the how part with the person immediately concerned (who has been executing since a couple of years)
Sponsoring/ editing is creative/dynamic. Everything can not be pre determined and time tables framed would need to be rehashed. Rigid frameworks are bottlenecks and result of being too assuming/idealistic
Employees who share years of common trust would instantly find out wat’s going on in the new manager’s mind. He can’t hold meetings with three employees individually at 9, 9:30, and 10am respectively and think that he has spoken to them separately/individually
And last but not the least, if he can’t trust them he can’t work with ‘em, not with dignity,not for long.
these guys will sort it out
...my immediate boss is a blessing and I am able to work cuz she is (apt for an editor) no nonsense, realistic, concise n precise in everything. If she finds a mistake she simply suggests the correction and checks for consistency :)
At home
The lady stayed at our place for a night …she’d left when I came back from office the next day. She will come back in a day or two for… may be a week’s stay. Welcome she’d be ...i did not ask her wat happened or why, and she never felt the need to tell…we did not exchange many words(just comfy in each other’s presence)
:) she got up at 5 that morn n did Yoga…me cooked Jackfruit and the courtesy was reciprocated, women at our place cooked their specialties and it was a little party last night. Four of us 'd gone for jogging and yeah now they are all sleeping with achy bums- stretched too far I guess
posted by Pj at 2:36 AM
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