Control Everything Controllable or Uncontrollable

By Dr. Tom DePaoli

 

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Boogeyman Leader tactic: Drown your employees in paperwork and bureaucracy that you deem is necessary for control. Ensure that employees spend more time informing you of their progress than actually working or doing the task. Be highly critical if they make even slight errors in their reports or updates to you. Remind them of their report submitting incompetence in meetings. Insist on duplicity. Demand formal memos, duplicate electronic memos and constant updates to you, due as frequently as possible. Triplication is good. Ignore most of them but concentrate on any mistakes and never let them forget how great a bureaucrat you are compared to them. Only give harsh negative feedback on their reports never encouragement. Use a dark red pen to write sarcastic derogatory comments on their reports. Give grades like F+ F, F-, F--etc. Make it even more effective by sometimes never reading them or commenting on them unless there are errors in procedure not substance.

 

I once had a boss in a meeting who publicly ripped up a monthly report from an employee. His only remark was that it was not worth the paper it was printed on. Some of the torn scraps fell on the floor and he just left them there.

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.

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