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title = "The Manager's Answer Book - Barbara Mitchell, Cornelia Gamlem" |
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date = 2021-08-25 |
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tags = ["reviews", "books", "books:2021", "management"] |
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[OpenLibrary |
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Summary](https://openlibrary.org/books/OL28202958M/The_Manager%27s_Answer_Book): |
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Powerful Tools to Maximize Your Impact and Influence, Build Trust and Teams, and |
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Respond to Challenges |
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Honestly, I didn't finish reading the book. |
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First, the style of showing content by the way of questions doesn't quite fit |
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the way I read, specially when the questions are specially designed to provide |
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an answer -- and not the other way around. |
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Second, most of the answers are quite obvious, in the style "How can I manage |
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X?" with the answer "Ask the people who were doing it in the first". Well, duh. |
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Third, the question style is somewhat confusing. It uses the pattern of "I |
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read/saw/heard about X. What can I do about it?", with different styles of |
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X. There are even questions which one could almost say are non-sequiturs, like |
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(paraphrasing) "I'm a highly hands-on person, how can I write the reports the |
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financial team is asking me?". You can be both, and none of those two are |
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actually related. |
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Fourth, there are a bunch of useless comments in the middle, which gives the |
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impression of filler, like "As a manager, you have to do several things." No |
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shit, Sherlock. |
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And fifth, by 75% of the book, there was a question about what one should report |
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and I quote "Evidence of union activity should be reported to your human |
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resources or legal support as soon as possible. Early detection of and rapid |
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response to union activity has long been key to union avoidance." So, if I get |
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this right, it means that me, as a manager, should be a union busting asshole? |
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Fuck. Off. |
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That's when I gave up. I was already tired of the style and then, instead of |
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suggesting speaking to people invested in it to check why they believe an union |
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is necessary or what could be done to avoid the creation of the union in the |
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first place. But no, you must report to legal so they can burst the whole thing |
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down. Great, what a great person you've become. |
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