If your want your organization to operate effectively, you should not ignore the signs of bad management. What are they? Management attention-issues.com.described the ten most common signs.
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Bad managers "clean the mess" after their predecessors even though they had left no mess.
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They are still so busy by "major" projects for the company's success that they do not have time to fulfill their common tasks.
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They bet on easy targets and accept lower performance rather than risk criticism for failure to fulfill ambitious goals.
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They manage their people only remotely using performance indicators.
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They always find an excuse and blame someone or something else.
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They prepare comprehensive plans and rely on the fact that no one reads them.
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They pretend an interest in feedback but do not follow what they hear.
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They do everything for shareholders even if it means going against long-term interests of the company.
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They focus more on covering their the back than on the development of their departments.
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They have a prepared strategy to move to another company, usually every three years.
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