Think twice..
1. Always pretend to know more than anybody around you. Especially be
suspicious when people from below come up with ideas. You know better!
2. Police your employees by every procedural means that you can devise.
Insist that they stick to the rules of good old bureaucracy and fill in
many forms that need to be signed by almost every senior manager in
the organization.
3. Run daily checks on the progress of everyone’s work. Be critical (they
love it!), and withhold positive feedback, which would only encourage
them to do things that are potentially dangerous.
4. Make sure that creative staff do a lot of technical and detailed work.
Make sure that they do their own bookkeeping, and count everything
you can count as often as possible.
5. Create boundaries between decision-makers, technical staff, and
creative minds. Make sure that they speak different languages.
6. Never talk to employees on a personal level, except for annual meetings
at which you praise your social and communicative leadership skills.
7. Be the exclusive spokesperson for every new idea, regardless of
whether it is your own or not.
8. Embrace new ideas when you talk, but do not do anything about them.
9. When the proposed idea is too radical, you can always argue that no
one has done it before and that there might be reasons for this.
10. When the proposed idea is not radical enough, just say that the idea
is not really new and that someone else already did it.
Literature
Clegg, S., Kornberger M. and Pitsis T. (Eds.) (2005) Managing
and Organizations, Sage