boss - how to be a smart boss

to make a balance of things out of all the various outside stimulus is tough.

especially when the boss is micro-managing the subordinates. this is pretty like what the pap is facing.

but can you afford not to do that, if you are the boss? especially when your people are not that smart, or they are too smart, rather too self-centred to get themselves in the politics of things.

why does the boss want to micro-manage. he does that when the issue has bubble up to his level, and his subordinate already come to and end of his wits to deal with the issue. he has to more or less take over the issue from him and calling the shots himself.

that's clear to the boss all this while. otherwise he would not even want to know what's happening in the daily routines of the operations. he's a hands-off boss. but when push comes to shove, he is not going to push his people to the wall for solutions. he will work with them to fix the issue. is that a good boss.

good maybe. but no smart. to some subordinates, this is micro-managing when their boss is breathing down their necks.

but it could not help that their boss does that, because he cannot sit there and hope that their driven-to-the-wall subordinate could go any further to work out the solution(and the subordinate being a gungho employee does not acknowledge his dire situation and asks for help).

marathon man's fren complains about his boss being very bossy lately.

marathon man ask him, "is your boss used to be like that all the time?"

"no. but lately."

"then you must be giving him problem?"

"me, giving him problem?"

"like you are expected to take care of the problem in the line, and the problem is left open.... and the people above him go to him for solution....."

"the way he questioned me like i did not work."

"he going to answer to his superior, he needs all the info to do that."

"i feel like i'm being micro-managed. and i don't like it."

"then tell him you can fix the issue."

"but i am swamped with other issues...."

"look at it this way; wouldn't it be better that your boss comes along and help you out....."

"i think, i will talk to him about my feeling."

"yap. you should do that. and listen to what he says."

.......

"so did you talk to your boss?"

"yes."

"what did he say?"

"he said, i should be part of the solution and not be the problem."

"ha.... really? what do you think."

"what else can i do if i want to stay. i have to dig-in and face the battle by myself."

- you see, that's what a smart boss should do. for a smarter boss, he don't have to face this type of question from his subordinates - he would just pretend he's so busy, he don't have time for them.