Have you ever wondered why a company
goes bankrupt? Especially the ones that are “too big to fail”?
There any many different factors, but today we're going to focus on
feckless managers. If you want to destroy your company, you should
hire managers who meet the following criteria:
Managers who do not understand metrics
and KPI's. They'll never know which of their collaborators work well
and which don't. So they'll shift work from the “slow” workers to
the quick ones – they don't care about their workers' indivual
performance, they just want to meet the objectives fixed by their
superiors. Dont' worry: your good workers will soon start looking for
a new job and leave the company asap.
If the desk clerk speaks English better
than the 95% of the managers, you're on the right track: your company
will go bankrupt soon because it won't undergo any innovation.
English is today's Latin – if you want to know what's going on
around the globe, you have to speak English (and other languages if
possible).
If all the company's managers studied
at the same university or business school, are about the same age and
are from the same country (in the case of a multinational
corporation), you can be pretty sure that most of the managers
weren't hired for their professional skills... seeing that working
hard makes no sense because you don't belong to their “caste” and
one will never be promoted is the best way to motivate your company's
workforce.
Managers who hold meetings all day
long: Well this is what managing is all about, right? Managing is just
telling somebody else what he's got to do. Your managers should hold
several meetings a day, assign new tasks to their employees and leave
at 5pm at the latest... and your employees will keep on working until
7pm or 8pm – they're lucky because they've got a job. So, no
complaints please...
What else can you think of?
