I have always noticed achievers who stand above
crowd. I can’t help but notice when people work together to achieve extraordinary. Today, I’d like to call special attention to a special breed of executive or manager. Their expertise has nothing to do with increasing productivity, enhancing communication, encouraging teamwork, or improving profitability. In fact, it’s exact opposite. I like to call them Profit Prevention Managers. They are ones who invent and later enforce profit prevention policies that make it so difficult for those around them to be productive employees.
How do you know when you’ve met a Profit Prevention Manager? Here are a few clues:
1.They’re first to shoot down a new idea. “That’s not way we do things around here,” or “We’ve always done things this way,” describes their decision-making rationale. They are incapable of realizing that what worked in past will not always work in future. (If everybody thought like this, we’d probably still live in caves.)
2.Their concept of a hiring process is best described as hire and hope. They keep hiring until they get an employee to stick. (How much is wasted on recruiting and unnecessary retraining?)
3.They think that time and money spent on educating an employee are wasted when an employee leaves and that training is a waste of money. (What about cost of ignorance?)
