If there are two things that you can be sure of in management its:

1) The same kid who beat you up in the sandbox is now your boss

2) Management and managers can be this and that but to protect their creator endowed perks and benefits they will stick together like glue

Take this tale as an example.

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-  a member of management accidentally  sent a rather mean and viscous email to all employees by hitting the “send all “  button in Outlook  Express or perhaps for aggressive managers- Outlook.  Never mind that Outlook is perhaps the most hacked , insecure and downright dangerous program to use as a communications email program.

You might think that some harm would come to the culprit or at least an apology.  Instead management rushes around , in a band aid approach , to fix the problem of the email program that allowed this to occur – rather than dealing with the individual.

Here is the memo that follows.  It must of taken a fair amount and management expense accounts over lunch and in the evenings to draft the followup action of the firm.

The following memo, distributed to Nielsen employees today, sounds like it was taken straight from a script for NBC’s The Office.

Unfortunately, I’m told, it’s all-too-real.

“REPLY TO ALL” FUNCTION TO BE DISABLED

A Message from Andrew Cawood

In December, the Nielsen Executive Council (NEC) held an Act Now! event to review suggestions from across the business that would eliminate bureaucracy and inefficiency. Beginning Thursday, January 29, we will implement one of the approved recommendations: removing the “Reply to All” functionality from Microsoft Outlook.

We have noticed that the “Reply to All” functionality results in unnecessary inbox clutter. Beginning Thursday we will eliminate this function, allowing you to reply only to the sender. Responders who want to copy all can do so by selecting the names or using a distribution list.

Eliminating the “Reply to All” function will:

• Require us to copy only those who need to be involved in an e-mail conversation
• Reduce non-essential messages in mailboxes, freeing up our time as well as server space

This is one of the many changes being implemented as a result of the NEC Act Now! initiative. If you have any suggestions on how we can continue to improve the way we work, please send your comments to Nielsen Communications [mailto: REDACTED].

Andrew Cawood
Chief Information Officer

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A large group of us from work had taken an entire evening to travel from the suburbs into the city and site in a studio for over three hours -all to provide a live audience for our pastor’s TV program. Every couple of weeks the bosses would evaluate us “for own good”. Lot of luck.

The same people who beat you up in the sandbox when you were four years old are now in charge. Woody Allen said that “Those that don’t do teach those that cannot teach manage”.

What on earth can a manager teach an experienced employee who is on the front lines , is productive and has proven so by being gainfully employed a number of years by the firm or the specified industry.

Nothing more than self justification of insecure individuals to keep their so called perks and privileges. Perks can be defined as things given to management that in no way can be justified.

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Do they think that they are on ?Planet Zoltar? and have ?Mind Control? powers over you like on Star Trek? ?Beam me up Scotty there is no intelligent life here? is certainly the buzzword.
Power is often defined as the capacity to get what you want or the ability to influence others. Ultimately though in life most reasonable people learn that you have very little control and certainly very little control over others.

Yet this powerful urge still persists among many management and supervisor types. The same type of people who beat you up in the sandbox when you were 4 years old are now trying to be in roles of management.

In a recent study on what was termed “E-power? a team of workplace psychologists wanted to see whether having power changed how well people understood the viewpoints of others. The researchers asked volunteers to recall personal incidents where either they had power over others or others had power over them.

Past studies have revealed that such recollections had exactly the same effects as actually placing people in positions of power or limited power. If for example it turned out that regardless of whether people were given power or simply remembered possessing it, they were more likely to assert themselves and take risks all for the better or worse.

77 student volunteers to draw the letter Z on their own foreheads. More than a decade of experiments have shown that people who write the Z in a way that is legible to themselves but backwards to others have not thought or cared about how others might perceive the letter. On the other hand, people who draw the Z backward to them but legible to others have considered another person’s  point of view.

Amazingly it turned out that the study subjects who believed that they possessed ?recollected power? were almost four to six times as likely to draw their letter Z in a way that was backwards to others than those who recollected an experience of limited powers and abilities.

Thus it terms out when people or in your case management or supervisory staff have power they go on to make your life more than miserable.

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

However can be empathy in the management role? Is this possible in the real world?

Highly unlikely. After extensive research in controlled settings it turns out that those who had these imaginary perceived power abilities were less able to judge emotions rather than having greater abilities. This is the opposite of what you would think.

After all great time, energy, training and life skills go into the choice and training of ?management and supervisory? staff. You would think that if anything these carefully chosen individuals since they are involved in the ?management and motivation of their staff? would be at the extreme end of human emotion perceptual judgment skills.

It is true in the end. You were not hallucinating or imagining it. Your boss is more than clueless. He is also most likely the type to say ” I have learned the gold rule”. “The rules are golden and they are My RULES’. How original. The mentality of a 2 year old.

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