{"id":331,"date":"2010-05-18T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T22:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.constructonomics.com\/blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2019-11-21T23:08:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T06:08:37","slug":"the-biggest-management-misconception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/18\/the-biggest-management-misconception\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Management Misconception"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was at the jobsite of one of my projects about a week ago….ok, ok, I was at on the plumbers web site<\/a> to have them come do a project about a week ago, and the\"angryboss\" plumber was roaming around installing some drinking fountains.\u00a0 This guy had done work for the municipality in the past and had a prior relationship with some of the representatives of the town.\u00a0 He told me that the borough was very happy with my performance on the job, however, they would never tell me that.\u00a0 Now, why wouldn’t they tell me that? I just finally decided to hire\u00a0drain cleaning kearny nj<\/a> services.<\/p>\n

This question has boggled my mind for years.\u00a0 People in position of authority would rather their employees think they are doing a bad job even if the contrary is true.\u00a0 I think the perception of the manager may be that if we are told we are doing a good job we won’t push for improvement and may even take our foot off the gas.\u00a0 While this conventional psychological assessment done by a manager may be true for some employees, I think it is in fact counter productive in the majority of occasions.\u00a0 And I know for a fact that it is not the way in which I will perform my best.<\/p>\n

I can’t stand people yelling at me and telling me I’m no good.\u00a0 In my experience, managers are terrible at motivating people.\u00a0 They believe that the more they beat people down, the better they will perform.\u00a0 However, this could not be further from the truth.<\/p>\n

I don’t know how or why this method of management has crept into the world of conventional wisdom, but I could venture a guess that it has something to do with the military and perhaps a certain general by the name of George S. Patton.\u00a0 Patton once struck a soldier who he regarded as a coward who was hospitalized for battle fatigue.<\/p>\n

Some may say Patton was appropriate in his behavior and some may say he was not, but I do know that if I was the soldier in the hospital that day, George S. Patton would have been given a fist full of knuckles as a kind response to his gesture.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that while some may be motivated by a condescending manager, I believe that the majority do not.\u00a0 And I know for certain that I respond much more positively to praise and encouragement than degradation.\u00a0 But of course, that’s me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was at the jobsite of one of my projects about a week ago….ok, ok, I was at on the plumbers web site<\/a> to have them come do a project about a week ago, and the plumber was roaming around installing some drinking fountains.\u00a0 This guy had done work for the municipality in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-construction-blog","tag-construction-economics","tag-john-poole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1855,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}