Ways You’re Making Your Employees Less Productive
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Ways You’re Making Your Employees Less Productive
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Re: Ways You’re Making Your Employees Less Productive
#2Process, management, de-empowerment, hiring B people.
Re: Ways You’re Making Your Employees Less Productive
#3Process, management, de-empowerment, hiring B people.
Of course, it's more complex than that. Surely you're not suggesting to completely eliminate all four of those. They each have a certain value in their own way.
Re: Ways You’re Making Your Employees Less Productive
#4Process, management, de-empowerment, hiring B people.
Of course, it's more complex than that. Surely you're not suggesting to completely eliminate all four of those. They each have a certain value in their own way.
Yeah all the YCombinator startups that are killing it started with 2 guys/girls, then proceeded to add on a lot of process, management, de-empowerment, and hiring B people. That's how they made it - look at any of them!
Re: Ways You’re Making Your Employees Less Productive
#5My 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.
Re: Ways You’re Making Your Employees Less Productive
#6My 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…
Number 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
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".
Re: Ways You’re Making Your Employees Less Productive
#7Process, management, de-empowerment, hiring B people.
Somebody has to hire us "B people".
Re: Ways You’re Making Your Employees Less Productive
#8I live in San Diego (where a huge Intuit campus is located) and have known lots of people who work there, but none that work remotely with any regularity. I'm curious what #7 (let employees telecommute when they need to) means at Intuit. I wonder what their definition of "need to" is.
Re: Ways You’re Making Your Employees Less Productive
#9I live in San Diego (where a huge Intuit campus is located) and have known lots of people who work there, but none that work remotely with any regularity. I'm curious what #7 (let employees telecommute when they need to) means at Intuit. I wonder what their definition of "need to" is.
I see the article is from Alison Green of Askamanager.org, a professional writer not affiliated with Intuit. Looking at their other content it appears most of it is professional done by some pretty well known authors from NY Times, Forbes.com, etc. Pretty good stuff. Subscribing.