Clueless – rah rah rah … we are proactive……  Yet the latest concepts ( paradigm shift)  most likely came from an article read with no depth of understanding what so ever , and no context from a magazine in business class , that the “boss read”  in executive business class, while having a few scotch whiskey, on the way for a “meeting”  to “discuss” with you the latest ideas and implementations from head office dealing with cost saving decisions , strategies and tactics decided at the latest “upper level management meetings’.

Worse yet its all taken with no depth of comprehension or understanding what so ever.  For example the lecture may be on that most workers / reps / salespeople under-utilize the greatest tools of efficiency – being typically – email , cell phones , pay phones telephones. Fine ok.

The next demanding conversation deals with “I am not used to people using the devices – phone , cell phones email etc”.   In other words we should keep busy regardless of end efficiencies and effectiveness proving how scared of me you are scurrying around driving from here to there – wasting time in traffic , at the parking lot etc etc etc.

What a waste of time and sheer stupidity !  No doubt about it.

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All true but the hidden agenda may well be to maintain and enlarge the execs / sales managers / supervisor’s  means to get another job in the industry.  After all if they are not “experienced”  “familiar “  with the alphabet soup of the day their days of promotion to another or better or escape hatch job – while the going is not too bad – are somewhat limited.   “Are you experienced with  gobbledygook number x 2009 …..No then come back and see us when you are.”   Guess which exec or employee pushes for that new computer program / management tool /  monitoring program ?

The most amazing part is that once in place , after all the preparation and high priced staff in place to lecture willing or captive employees on the merits of the program , that upper management , supervisors and bosses are totally inept at any simple comprehension of  the basis of the whole program and its concepts.

For example on the plane , with plenty of scotch , they may glance over an add in a magazine ( which they borrow off the plane , after all they paid a business class fare) , which states that the “phone is the most underutilized tool of most employees – let your fingers do the walking…” .  One may well ask what about the internet and the mouse in this day and age of the year of 2009.   At meetings , in interviews and on meetings in the field ( as an observer only there to help) , the exec/  supervisor boss may well spout this phrase incessantly .  However at the same time he may well admonish staff for using the phone too much.

Its not a case simply of trying to cause trouble and prove whose boss , of incompetence or even stupidity.  People go back to what they “grew up under “  and what they know.  Alcoholics or children of alcoholics and dysfunctional homes often go right back to the same behavior they knew and grew up under .   Why – they know it works , its rock solid and after all it feels “best”.

In the same way and manner most managers no what the program is , or what the new flavor is – which has been bought or cost a fair amount of money of resources to purchase and implement will always go back to “more of the same “.   Count on it.  Its a truism of life.  Get with the program.

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