Leadership Development programs for 1997.
We know that management, after 100+ years of the study of operations, still
doesn't trust the people hired to work for/with them.
The military has a rule of no fraternization.
I think that this hurts any organization.
We need to get programs where managers talk to labor so that instead of
a schism, there winds up being instead, only a team with a leader responsible
directly to the board of directors.
I know of almost no company anywhere that has a manager admiring his/her
staff and a staff admiring his/her boss (I know some exist, but such a group
is an aberration in operations.
Socialists feel that the laborers should get more benefits and some think
that the bottom-level employees know as much about the business as do
the managers.
It seems to me that weekly, or daily there needs to be "walk a few hundred
feet in my shoes."
Those people, regardless of rank or level, who gladly buy into any program
make it run and always successfully!
In my classes as teacher/facilitator, I have not had the opportunity to watch
and listen to management respond to lower level employee's points of view.
Any rank privileges only alienate people.
Let's get everyone not just talking to each other, but WANTING to talk to
each other! K. Kemper
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