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<blockquote data-quote="Skeptic" data-source="post: 155107" data-attributes="member: 2175"><p>I once worked, briefly, for a company whose boss apparently went to a workshop or some such -- where all bad ideas sprout -- and became fixated on teams and team building and teamwork, though it never occurred to him that paying his department heads annual bonuses based solely on how much of their operating budget they turned back June 30 was hardly conducive to his now larger goal. As a result the wonderfully and creatively named Human Resources Dept. scheduled lectures, meetings, workshops, and forced "conversations" having to do with such silly stuff as "active listening" -- one wag said he was active when the boss talked; he was actively trying to go to sleep -- right in the midst of the most demanding part of the day, and in a department that already depended almost solely on communications and teamwork to do its job. Now it must learn how to do what they were already doing. It flopped obviously and already bad morale fell through the floor while the best employees fled through the door. The boss showed his leadership by firing the fellow made responsible for implementing the boss's unimaginable orders. It did not occur to him that he had the greater blame for allowing it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skeptic, post: 155107, member: 2175"] I once worked, briefly, for a company whose boss apparently went to a workshop or some such -- where all bad ideas sprout -- and became fixated on teams and team building and teamwork, though it never occurred to him that paying his department heads annual bonuses based solely on how much of their operating budget they turned back June 30 was hardly conducive to his now larger goal. As a result the wonderfully and creatively named Human Resources Dept. scheduled lectures, meetings, workshops, and forced "conversations" having to do with such silly stuff as "active listening" -- one wag said he was active when the boss talked; he was actively trying to go to sleep -- right in the midst of the most demanding part of the day, and in a department that already depended almost solely on communications and teamwork to do its job. Now it must learn how to do what they were already doing. It flopped obviously and already bad morale fell through the floor while the best employees fled through the door. The boss showed his leadership by firing the fellow made responsible for implementing the boss's unimaginable orders. It did not occur to him that he had the greater blame for allowing it. [/QUOTE]
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