Your biggest worry isn't your junior staff wasting time surfing the net. It's the guy who's telling them to stop it.
At a time when more companies are beginning to take a long hard look at their overheads – often considering the interim management route – I’ve got a suggestion to make which I suspect will strike a chord with quite a few of you out there: don’t worry so much about junior staff who don’t have enough to do – but make sure you look out for the senior executive who’s compromising his own productivity by making it his business to spot the 'time wasters'.
We’ve found that over-vigilance is just one of the ways in which upper management under-productivity manifests itself. Another is a demonstrating a propensity for attending spurious networking events, dubious think tanks and conferences of marginal relevance.
Chances are this sort of activity is costing you an awful lot more than a few juniors stealing the odd half hour to do a bit of online shopping. Worth considering next time you’re involved in the perennial recruitment versus consultancy debate?
We’ve found that over-vigilance is just one of the ways in which upper management under-productivity manifests itself. Another is a demonstrating a propensity for attending spurious networking events, dubious think tanks and conferences of marginal relevance.
Chances are this sort of activity is costing you an awful lot more than a few juniors stealing the odd half hour to do a bit of online shopping. Worth considering next time you’re involved in the perennial recruitment versus consultancy debate?
2009-01-22 16:04:49