Boogeyman Leader Tactic: Make Sure the Visual First Impression of the Department is Lousy

 

Boogeyman Leader Tactic: Make Sure the Visual First
Impression of the Department is Lousy

By Dr. Tom DePaoli

 

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Learn what not to do as a leader.

 

Make sure when a person first enters the department or adjacent areas it looks like a junkyard. Encourage sloppiness and disorder. Never clean up any messes.

 

Once we had a major coffee spill in our coffee or break area. It was never properly cleaned up and a huge coffee stain was a permanent fixture on the floor. The area always smelled of stale food. The cleanliness of the bathroom was even worse. When suppliers or customers came to visit, we told them to use the bathrooms in the plant lobby.

 

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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