Monday, June 15, 2009

MOTW: Spouting-Off Manager

While most managers can not deconstruct the latest company reorganization even with a map, compass, and GPS (Global Positioning System) as survival aids, let alone explain the event to someone else, Spouting-Off Manager is something of an expert in these matters. He/she can rattle off the first and last names plus the corresponding new responsibility of each and every person who has been shuffled about during the latest move (as well as the accompanying political ramifications of the change) and does so constantly and authoritatively.

Spouting-Off Manager was excellent at jigsaw puzzles in his/her infancy and spends the majority of his/her time assiduously applying these same skills, explaining the intricacies of business reorganizations to less enlightened staff members. How this adds value to the bottom line is not very clear.

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