Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
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The Seagull Manager
Do you ever feel as if you’ve been bombed by a seagull manager? Or are you, in fact, acting like one, swooping in on problems that teams of qualified people have not been able to solve, and dropping a “magic solution” that no one else has been able to see?
Today’s workplace is breeding seagull managers like wildfire. As companies flatten in response to the lagging economy they gut management layers. The remaining managers are left with more autonomy, greater responsibility, and more people to manage. That means they have less time and less accountability for focusing on the primary purpose of their job — managing people.
Seagull managers only interact with their employees when there’s a fire to put out. Even then, they move in and out so hastily — and put so little thought into their approach — that they make bad situations worse by frustrating and alienating those who need them the most. Instead of taking the time to get the facts straight and working alongside their staff to realize a viable solution, seagull managers swoop in at the last minute, squawk at everybody, and deposit steaming piles of formulaic advice before abruptly taking off and leaving behind an even bigger mess than when they started.
According to a recent study published in Human Resource Executive magazine, a third of U.S. workers spend a minimum of 20 …
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