Boogeyman Leader $20 Item Story

By Dr. Tom De Paoli

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Boogeyman leader tactic: Drill into your employee’s head that you are the final and sole decision maker. No one is to decide anything unless you have been informed and approve of the decision. This includes even minor decisions like ordering office supplies. Become like an erratic tyrant when making decisions and give no rhyme or reason for your decisions. Just “because” will suffice as your reason. Never forget to castigate an employee who suggests an alternative decision or approach. Only delegate infantile decisions of insignificant tasks to your pet employees.

I once had a boss argue for over an hour in a budget meeting of ten people over a twenty-dollar item request in my budget. The amount of time and labor wasted was way beyond the twenty dollars for the item. She made sure everyone in the room knew that she rejected it, and did not approve of it and berated me for even asking for it. A month after the meeting I purchased the item out of my own pocket. She never did notice the twenty-dollar item in my office.

Dr. Tom DePaoli, (Dr. Tom) is currently an independent management consultant, the Principal of Apollo Solutions, which does general business consulting in the human resources, supply chain and lean six sigma areas. His organization was self-founded in 1995. He retired as a Captain from the Navy Reserve. In other civilian careers, he was a supply chain and human resources executive with corporate purchasing turnaround experience and lean six sigma deployments. He has worked for over ten major companies and consulted for over fifty organizations throughout his career. Some of his consulting projects include: information systems projects, re-engineering organizations, transformation, e-procurement, e-commerce, change management, global sourcing and negotiating. His industry experience is in the chemical, paper, pharmaceutical, IT, automotive, government, consumer, equipment, services and consulting industries. He has been published extensively in journals, magazines and books. He is the author of eleven books all available on Amazon.  He has instructed at six education facilities in numerous roles. He is active in supporting the YMCA, Wounded Warrior, and the prevention of the bullying of children.

https://www.amazon.com/author/tomdepaoli    = Dr. Tom’s Amazon author’s page

http://www.apollosolutions.us  = website of Apollo Solutions his business

drtombooks.com  = more information on Dr. Tom’s books

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dr-thomas-depaoli/0/736/6b3/  = LinkedIn home page