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    Management: The other side
    Management: The other side
    Management: The other side
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    Management: The other side

    By Ken Schweim

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    This is management as viewed from the people in the trenches, the people that make it happen. Most of the ideas, concepts, thoughts, and general management impressions in this book were gathered from break room discussions, personal experiences, sitting around the campfire and interviews with personnel who have to report to higher authority. The intent of this book is to share those experiences.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKen Schweim
    Release dateAug 11, 2010
    ISBN9781458185235
    Management: The other side
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    Ken Schweim

    Retired teacher/Paramedic

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      Management - Ken Schweim

      Management: The other side

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      Ken Schweim

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      Management: The other side

      Copyright 2010 by Ken Schweim

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      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

      Table of Contents

      Before the beginning.....

      In the beginning.........

      My boss is an idiot

      Manager? How did that happen??

      How many vice Presidents do we need?

      Education vs. intelligence

      Battlefield commands made by non- combatants

      Authority

      Workload balance

      If it ain’t broke, why are we fixing it?

      Termination…treated like a convict

      Meetings

      Decision making

      Would you be interested in any input from the grunts?

      Ladder to success

      Communication

      Work assignments

      Personnel reviews

      I have a college degree, therefore....

      Micro management

      The world of consultants

      Mission/Vision statement

      Re-inventing the wheel

      Mid-management

      Management can’t be wrong

      Operating on Auto-Pilot

      Personal traits

      Promises, Promises, Promises

      Replaced with part-timers

      I don’t wanna be a manager

      Don’t you have anything else to do?

      I also am a human being

      Give me the tools to do the job

      What a waste of time

      And in closing.....

      About the Author

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      Before the beginning.....

      *****

      I would like to define one special term here that is used throughout my book and that is the term Grunt, which is taken from my military experience (USMC). My definition of Grunt is: an employee who works at the bottom level or one who is directly involved in producing the product. In my military experience we daily talked about the 10% that didn’t get the word. The 10% either were not paying attention or simply were not capable of grasping the concept. Unfortunately the 10% of management that fall into that category are the ones that leave the biggest impression.

      Realizing employees are both male and female, this book should be gender specific. However, it really gets to be a pain to always say he/she. It has been my experience that males have been more of a problem in management than the females (that could almost be a book topic in itself) so I will use the male gender.

      Generally speaking the quality of management in the work place today is what we expect and is capable of producing maximum output from the best workers under the best conditions. Telling stories about that type of management would really be boring. This book is not about those people. This book specializes in the other side of management.

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      In the beginning.........

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      Manage: to handle or direct with a degree of skill

      In the beginning there was heaven on earth. Then there was a big change. Because two people could not follow a simple directive, another existence was introduced. The population explosion began and not long after that it became obvious that another layer of existence was needed. And thus the term management was introduced. This was supposed to be a means by which gifted individuals could direct the activities of others to achieve maximum success for whatever their assigned tasks. Shortly after the introduction of management, employees sitting around the rock pile at the campfire began to question some of the management techniques encountered.

      Today, at least 6,000 years later, we find a lot of the same questions are still being asked. Management has always been a lively topic of discussion in almost every setting including work, bars, schools, home, and even churches. The discussions often include at least one occurrence of Well, I’ll tell you what, if I was in charge.... Many employees who operate at one step below the lowest level of management (grunts) will agree that management could use a little refinement. However, some management people seem to have come from a different gene pool. How can management improve if they are not aware a problem exists?

      The sequence of topics presented here offers no logical pattern because there is no logic to the problem. Some of the topics could go on forever but we don’t have forever.

      The purpose of this book is to enlighten, entertain, and hopefully alert managers that a better life can exist in the work place. If the book appears to be just a bunch of random babbling, just pretend I’m your manager.

      The management skills in question in this book are found in every type of business including manufacturing, office work, military, schools, government, and hospitals. The only workers today that can escape the torment of mismanagement are those that are self-employed. For the rest of you, read on and lets have a few laughs together (what else can you do?)

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      My boss is an idiot

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      It is surprising how many managers are out there that are, simply put, stupid...his head is there primarily to keep the rain out of his neck. I know it is difficult to describe common sense but whatever it is, it is the opposite of what this guy has.

      My boss is an idiot! was the most common complaint I heard while collecting data for this book. This places him in one of the following categories; One, He actually is a complete idiot; Two, as a manager he is an idiot; Three, he lacks skills in the area he is supervising. Ok, it could be all three.

      As a hard working, caring employee, it is difficult to work for an idiot. You may have to produce a substandard product because of his management skills. You may have to produce a product that costs more than needed, or produce a product with a higher level of difficulty because the idiot refuses to accept your suggestions. You may find that just attempting to talk to him requires you to wind down

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