"Realist",
First, understand that employees evaulate the
CONTENT of a statement and are not generally
impressed just because a manager said it.
Whether "mtothar" is a manager or not doesn't
concern me. The situation that prompts him to
comment IS what concerns me.
You are very upset that "mtothar" used epithets
in one of his posts. In case you didn't notice,
those epithets weren't DIRECTED at anyone, but
used in a discussion of slander and character
assassination.
If you had watched "60 Minutes" tonight you
would have heard a long excerpt read from a
book written by Professor Kennedy(?), an academic.
The book discusses in some detail the usage and
context of a common epithet. The title of the
book is that epithet. It starts with the letter
"N". You may rest a little easier knowing that
Professor Kennedy is a rather handsome black man. Let's hope he's not also a musician and an
"heir" to anything.
Your example of Harvard's Professor Kotter, and
his ideas for "leading change" are a wonderful
example of why Mort Sahl got out of doing satire
years ago.
You cite the following as "knowledge & wisdom"
delivered to us by Professor Kotter, for
"leading change":
#1 - "Create a crisis by allowing a financial loss"
Are you saying that Carly provoked, even encouraged financial loss so she could act as a
change agent ?? And do you wonder why shareholders
might question this ??
#2) "Set revenue, income, productivity, customer
sat and cycle-time targets so high that they can't be reached by conducting business as usual."
Would you have us believe that when Carly set
high revenue goals in a faltering economy, she
was simply acting as a change agent ?? Do you
believe that Carly set goals for employees to
achieve, knowing that they could NOT achieve them ?? Manipulation ??
If Professor Kotter and his ilk are your icons,
then I pity the people who work under you. When
you finally pull YOUR head from the sand, you
may one day understand that blind allegiance is
cold comfort at the end of the day.
- Anzerguy