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Values-freeResource

Management for efficientpeople

Wake up your inner clever dodger.

By

WojciechPrzychodzen



The vision 3

Let¶s get started 4

Cover story 5

The goal 6

Getting rid of obstacles 7

Working with People 8

Strategy 10

Hiring new people 12

Interview tips. 13

Team Meetings 14

Difficult employees 15

Boss Management 18

Innovation 20

Impression Management 21



The vision

Being a manager means responsibility.

If you are just starting this adventure, please be aware that you have been granted a rarechance.

Managing others is a responsible job. It is rewarding job. It¶s a meaningful job.

All the above means, that, if played well, it is a job where you are paid considerable money

and not asked to do any work in exchange.

It is your great chance and do not ruin it.

This book will help you to stay focused and become indispensable manager for your

organization.



Let·s get started

This book contains some tips and hints. Those are not to be talked over, but silently acted

upon. Even if you do not talk about it, still be careful - people will watch you to find out why

you are making such a progress and they do not. Always have a story ready to cover why

you do something which will act as distractor as to what for your real values and goals are.



Cover story

Your official managerial credo

What this story should look like?

Some handy, good selling stuff is about ³being on the same page ´,´ working together

towards one goal´, ³addressing issues´, ³win-win situations´, you probably know this by heart

already.

You should spend some time buildi ng one solid, trustworthy cover story to explain all your

further actions so that you are regarded as re liable, consistent and trustworthy individual. If

you add a touch of being action -oriented and achiever, nobody will resist temptation to put

you in charge of things they can¶t be bothered with.

Once you have it and it seems pretty coherent, make sure your boss, your colleagues and

your clients are aware of your admirable attitude and of possible potential you bring to their

work environment, their own careers (³All those wonderful things we can achieve together,

ust imagine Tom´) and even their social lives«

Of course it all should be as natural as possible.



The goal

One of the goals of this book (apart from paying for my hobbies) is to help you realize that

you will be spending a lot of time at work. It probably is a good idea that you make as much

money on it as you possibly can.

If you remember this, you will be focused while most people around you will be lost, bored,

or running in wrong directions. Means - you get in ± and they stay on a station.

Most people do not know neither what are they doing nor why. All think they have free will

which makes life a little more bearable.

Being the only focused person around will not only make you formal leader, but also informal

one as well. You will stand out from the crowd.

And that is beneficial and will serve you good.

Now, if you are to spend so much time at your job, be sure you are in a career path that

promises most rewards.



Getting rid of obstacles

After choosing best you can, accordingly to your background, as a next step you need to get

rid of socially induced ideas that are in place to keep you at bay :

-hard work will make you rich

-if you work hard and honestly you will be recogni zed and promoted

-being professional and good at what you do is the best key to career

All those great looking convictions are a device which aims at making you work for little

money doing things no -one else want to do.

In reality, it¶s all about impress ions. You will find plenty of people who are better in w hat they

do than you.

That¶s not a problem.

You just need to make sure they work for you.

Although socialising is a long process and starts when you cannot object to it, it is still

weaker than heal thy approach.

Healthy approach starts when you rather do, what you feel is right , than what you have been

told is right and efficient. Always, when you hear about something which is right or efficient ,

have a good look at who the person speaking is.

If she is not from the top- you know that by listening to her you will not go to the top either.

If she is at the top, she probablywant s you to stay where you are and let her continue being

on top.

This book is about stop listening to books and follow up you r own goals. The only

assumptionis: you are a manager and you want to have most out of it.



Working with People

Working with people gives you great opportunities to:

y Feel important

y Finally have some power

y Hire lots of pretty girls /handsome boys who will always smile to you and be obedient.

Always be encouraged by good examples. Every company is full of people who achieved

everything (or at least enough to have really good fun in their lives) not representing any real

value to their organisatio ns, companies, teams or to anybody. They just developed highly

effective social survival systems during their struggles for food, attention, love or Barbie dolls

during tough childhood .

You can be one of them. Additionally , towards your way up the life itselfwill throw enough

opportunities for you do some really good things per clear chance, because you are just

there. Do not be beguiled ± it would eventually fall on anybody in the same place at the right

time. You just make sure it¶s really you.

Going back to those µachievers¶.You have been fighting for the same things as they did,

whether with your parents, your siblings, teachers, colleagues at school. So the good news

is that you also have those skills. And they are very basic and very deeply rooted.

The only problem is once you grown up you decided to follow some more civilised rules. And

than you started to loose«

Now thank all those good people who made you become impotent, and get back on tracks.



Do not waste your time trying to be better, faster, more detail oriented, more customer

focused, more business-oriented, or whoever or whatever you want to be. By trying to be

someone else that you really are, you just waste your time and you lie down all your

weapons you already have.

All you need to do it to forget what you do not have and concentrate on what you have.

Never waste your time on learning things you will never be good at anyway. You will have

people for that. You just spend time on gaining what you want, arriving a t places you want to

be at, achieving things you want to achieve.

Do your job this way and as for the competition ± throw that all on them in tu rn. Corporate

environment have all t he blessed tools and support for you that you need:

y Corporate bullshit talk

y Company values

y Personal Development Plans,

y Motivation tools, incentives,

All that you need to keep your people in a position where they do hard work for youand are

happy that they still have a job and are being paid with respect and recognition instead of

real money or promotions.



Strategy

Plan is simple: do not plan , just do.

You will get there faster and earn an action oriented man reputation immediately. Do n ot

spend all your time at your desk. Go around, talk to people, and when working, do it

quickly.No point in wasting a good day sitting long hours in the office.

Remember to have your limits clearly defined and ma rketed, so that everybody knows that

you do not accept extra work or overtime (especially unpaid overtime).

While marketing this, j ust remember to talk a lot about good task and time management and

you will gain even more reputation.

Managing people has one big advantage over any other job. You do not have to do

anything. It¶s enough if you are not late (very important) and dressed properly (little bit less

important) and this way you act as a role model for your team. Is this not a beautiful

concept?

Soon enough your people will see that you are just a worthless prick ( that is, a real manager)

and will cease to worry you with any questions or reque sts for guidnace. Just make sure

everybody shares the same vision of a really great manager.

This vision is that real manager spends his days with his feet on the desk and a gentle

sound of snoring comes from his room.

Another good thing about that strategy is that part of your potential competitors will try to

mimic your successful strategy and will star to do nothing, thus securing your position.



During your managerial career you will be challenged by people who think they know better

what you should be doing.

First task is always to prove them wrong. You are the manager and you know best what you

should be doing, it¶s embedded in the term itself. By definition everything you do is planned,

is a part of a strategy, or something you wanted to make it looked like it did.

That is the general message that you should be sending - I¶m always in control and all that I

do is a part of a bigger, strategic plan.

I¶ve seen perfect examples at work. If you are sure of yourself and your managerial talk,

nobody will challenge you in the face. If there will be some strong personality to see through

you and challenge you, there are plenty of ways to deal with that. Read more in µDifficult

employees¶ section on those.

Your strategic goal is to become more and more powerful manager of higher and higher

level.

Everything else at your workplace is a tool and opportunity for this:

Friends, colleagues, money, gossip, ridiculing somebo dy (really powerful tool), sale stalk,

managerial babble talk, al that at your sole disposal to help you to achieve your goals.



Hiring new people

You need some people to work hard for you w hile you utilise fruits of their hard labour to

shine before your management.

Perfect candidates for you are people who are shy, have low self -esteem and high level of anxiety.

Also of great benefit would be if they are not schooled in the area where you want to employ

them, and are not likely to find other jobs. Young mothers, so t he people who most

employers would not hire, are very good. They will be grateful for the opportunity and ready

to work long hours without pay for security.

Make sure though all those who fit into the above description are at least a little intelligent,

because after all they will need to do the work.

Shyness and low self -esteem will make them pretty obedient and you can hardly expect

somebody questioning your ideas. Also, you can pay them more with g ood word than withmoney and even earn a reputation of be ing best employer in their lives.

Cases of worshipping can take place if you play it well.

High level of anxiety will make them double check their work before they will bring it to you,

so you are sure it will be relatively free of errors. You just need to stress how important it is

to you and how much you trust them on this.



Interview tips.

During interview you introduce yourself as boss and let them have no doubts about it.

You do not smile first, you do not laugh at their jokes and you look at the m in silence for a

while. After they say something you say ³oh´ or ³I see´, than you pretend to write something

on a pad in front of you and pause for a second.

After 20 minutes of such treatment each candidate will be somewhat shattered and shaken

from their carefully prepared positions have been choosing for this interview.

Than you can see how they react to stress and demanding boss.

If you want to make them a little more nervous sit directly in front of them.

Do not hold any particular line of quest ions, do not be bound by logic ± too predictable and

easy to defend.

Ask them to tell a joke. Ask them what their friends would say about them , and then question

that.

Before interview spend some time reading their CV, paying special attention to:

-grammatical errors and spelling errors; if you find any ask them on the interview if they

perceive themselves as people attentive to details.

-check if there are any achievements that make this CV outstanding from others, if not, be

sure to ask if they consider themselves to be achieving persons. If they confirm, ask where is

the in their CV.

-ask for whatever they have put there about the details. Most of it will be just a story that

looks good on paper«



Team Meetings

Team meetings are a perfect forum for you achieve many goals at the same time. If properly

handled, they may also become one of the most rewarding elements of your weekly routine.

You can use them to show your power, safely experiment with how different techniques

influence people (r idiculing, humiliating, being sarcastic, choos ing a favourite employee and

then changing him next month, etc.)

You can also show how much you care about developing your employees by making them

keeping minutes and encouraging discussions. This leaves you w ith plenty of time to than sit

quiet, rest, think about your shopping or where to go fo r holiday, finally wink to some of best

looking girls in your team.

Remember that by looking and acting manly and in decisive way you gain a lot in their eyes.

Now do you see why it is so important to keep regular, weekly meetings?

Meeting tips and hints:

Increase level of participation by having somebody taking minutes,

You can experiment with holding those meetings with everybody standing up (more difficult

to sit back and remain silent)

Ask people directly to share their opinion or answer questions

Never loose chance to give them a sample of your managerial talk, making sure you are all

on the same page and working toward one goal.

Encourage new ideas, allow the team t o select the best, and then, humbly but with

undisputable courage, present those ideas to your management. Do not pretend you are the

owner of those great ideas, just modestly mention that you are the owner of the entire

strategic programme that enabled sp ring of those ideas at all.



Difficult employees

There¶s always one, what do you expect?

Whenever there¶s a shortage of suitable girls on the market you are forced to hire people

who do not appeal to your higher self.

May happen that you will hire a can¶t-do worker and thus create for yourself real challenge,

provided your company is not easy on letting the m grow somewhere else, preferable in your

competitor¶s garden ;)

Difficult employees comes in few types:

-the ones that looked very clever during the interview but then you discovered that they are

unable to grasp basic concepts and cannot handle most simple situations

-the ones who want to take your place forcing you to do some real work or i mprove on

impression management

-broad category of pain-in-the±back employees group, which contains all other peopl e born

to torture and hunt you

When dealing with all three groups , you must have a clear picture of your role and their role.

It¶s really simple- guy has signed a contract, and if he does not fulfil his d uties, you do your

duties. Make sure he understands it .



Strong challengers.

Strong challenger means an ambitious person. Ambitious individual is the one who wants to

take your place, or even to take the place of your manager.

Such individual will not be afraid to loudly unmask your smart strate gies in front of your

team. Such threat needs to be taken out quickly.

Weak point of such person is that he or she wants to make a career in the same

organization.

If you have good contacts within managerial team, find some opportunity for this person

outside of your team. If successful, just make sure they know it was all your personal effort

and commitment to promote them and find a way to grow them.

If the believe your good intentions have just gained a supporter within organization. They

owe you.

Looking from this perspective, there is no problem than cannot be solved, by either

employee listening and changing their attitude or you finding opportunity to hire somebod y

valuable.

Apart from that, you look very well in taking your time to hear employee and trying to help asmuch as you help before letting him go. Your management will like you for this extra mile an

special attention you pay to people.

1st

group.

Obvious hiring mistakes.

Before letting go, trouble yourself with a lengthy meeting with the person, also make sure

somebody is your team is also there. Inexplicit goal of this meeting is for you to find out howyou could be so wrong, for your company to show hum much you care and that you do your

utmost to keep people in and that you are so considerate to have lessons learned out of this

unfortunate event.

Explicit goal of the meeting is to see what went wrong dur ing the training and come up with

the improvement plan with direct involvement and input from employee.

Only after this fails you can let the person goal and be able to claim another victory on a

difficult field of making hard choices as a efficient manage r.

2nd group.



If, on the other hand you do not have this option, most wise is to make this person your right

hand. Take them out of your regular team and make them feel important and directly

responsible before you for something.

The more ambitious and hard -working they are, the more work they will do in your behalf. By

recognizing them and treating them on special terms, you will take them out from their

supportive environment and people will feel betrayed by the one who was complaining somuch, and now ceased when given some more power. People will start to not like them to

say the least. So your position in the team is saved.

Just make sure there is no direct communication between this young, promising individual

you have just recognised and your direct manager.

If you allow direct communication between them, your manager might also start to see

through your strategy and can start to think your replacement will do his organisation good.

Avoid that for obvious reasons.

If your ambitious young man refuses to take so genero usly offered position, than, regretfully,

you will be left with no choice but to start talking the issue with difficult, always complainingindividual who refuses to take on more responsibility over with your boss. Naturally you and

him cannot afford to have somebody like that on board for long.

3rd group.

All unhappy mediocre workers.

Third group contains all those people who just complain but lack will, determination or skills

to threaten your position. In other words all immature types who do not yet realised that their

real status is that of a modern slave who works for as much as possible (is increased

efficiency part of your company strategy?) for as little as possible (is cost effectiveness

among the strategic goals of your company leadership team ?).

They are dealt with by a combination of your god -like authority of an experienced and

inapproachable manager (outcome of all techniques listed so far), soft incentives like hand -

shakes from management and distant but always real visions of disciplinary actions.

They can actually act as a guinea pig for all the techniques you want to invent yourself and

then master, just make sure you do not exaggerate or stress them too much. If you wouldrather have a little more time to surf internet during your busin ess hours, it is always a good

idea to have some sort of team leaders, formal or informal to deal with them.

Just make them responsible and they will take care of all those small issues of day to day

operations of your unit.



Bo anage en

� Recei es i eas,

� recei es deli erables,

� recei es proacti e support and helpYour

Boss

� Act a a liaison with good'manager' interface to your people and to your boss

You

� Produce ideas,

� produce

deli erables,� upon your request

performs tasks for your boss

Your team

Your boss like to have as easy time with you as you want with your team. It means you have

all the ideas and you put them forward f irst.

In order to achieve both goals- so to be perceived as a perfect manager by both your team

and your boss, you just need to place establish yourself asa liaison.

As you can see it does not take much to be perceivedas an excellent team manager by you

direct supervisor . You just need to leverage your team¶s efforts well.



What also works great is going to a shop in the morning and offering to buy something for

your boss like sandwich or donut. After all, you are already going there to buy something for

yourself, why not taking also something for your dear friend - boss?

Go for a lunch with them as often as opportunity presents itself , and between one bite and

another show how much you agree with her about all those idiots you are forced to work with

and offer sincere feedback on great performance of your boss.

Mentioning on just how hard you work and how good progress you are making is also a nice

option. And do not forget to show your human face as well by throwing one or two jokes so

the pork can taste better.

As soon as you had personal contact with some part of management team of your company,

you can establish an unofficial ema il distribution list and occasionally send them interesting

links to trainings, branch events, jokes and stuff like that. Let them be fully aware of just how

helpful, engaged and dedicated you are, not losing your life -work balance in the process.



Innovation

It helps to realise that ideas do not belong to anybody but are just expression ofcreativity of

universe. Knowing that, you can go o n a rampage of µborrowing ¶ or reusing someone else¶s

ideas for your benefit - and thus for the benefit of all the creation.

Widely known phrase of¶ standing on the shoulders of giants¶ makes it sound even better.

One of the old tricks is to ask your people for generating some new and useful ideas so that

you can review them and assess their usability for company. Next step is to simply thank for

submitted ideas, gently point out how slightly inadequate they are at the moment and

strongly encourage to continue working on them.

Than you take best of those, add something from yourself, trying not to damage the idea,

and present it to upper management as your own.

Another one is to propose to you manage ment a lot of i des you now that will be too costly,

but still they will think you have the company¶s growth in your mind«

You can also try to engage any of widely spread quality management techniques. They

obviously bright side is that people are actively engaged in eli minating their own jobs through

continuous improvements leading to cost savings - mainly allowing eventually to reduce staff

or to put more work on their shoulders.



Impression Management

As you probably noticed, all this book was about impression management. Use it wisely and

sky is the limit «.

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