Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Problems with management

How do you recognize bad management?

I think the following signs indicate such:

  • Managers scheduling meetings and then forgetting to turn up to them
  • Everything with hard deadlines done at the absolute last minute, to a low standard
  • Much work wasted on irrelevant activity
  • Team morale dropping to unplumbed depths
  • Attempting to blame supervisors for the team's state
In my opinion, one of the characteristics of a good leader is that they take responsibility for their team.