Step One = Good, Step Two = ??????, Step Three = Great!!

[dorchadas]

Or, be careful when hiring businesspeople to manage a nonprofit.
So the new vice president of our unit read a book called From Good to Great and got fired up with missionary zeal. Having already inflicted it on the senior management, she decided that everyone in the unit should be subject to it as well, and thus I suffered. And this from a woman

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[q99]

Oh, didn't that book use Circuit City as one of it's examples? (If it's the one I'm thinking of)

No-longer-existent Circuit City?

[dorchadas]

It did!

None of the "Great" companies had data tracked into the new millennium, since the book was first published in 2001, and it's not like anything major has happened economically since the 90s...

[agent_dani]

That sounds so very much like a former manager I had - he felt that his only functions as a manager should be to allocate the work and sign our performance reviews, and that everything else we should take care of on our own.

[dorchadas]

Ugh, that sounds really annoying to have to deal with. If no management is necessary (or thought to be necessary), why even have a manager?

[agent_dani]

I'd like to believe that was why a reorg relieved him of managerial responsibilities. However, what likely caused it was that he wouldn't say "no" to any work management asked him if we could do, hopelessly overextending us (to the point that we could have worked 12-14 hour days, 7 days a week and not met deadlines even if all those hours were productive.)