This document discusses what employees may hide from or not hide from their managers. It suggests that employees may hide that they are tired of pretending they are not special, or that they are busier than they actually are. Employees do not hide that they will leave bad managers, that sometimes they are not as busy as they seem, or ideas for how they could be more productive if given more time and autonomy. The document advocates for managers to focus on meeting employees' needs as human beings in order to retain them.
12. They leave bad
managers
Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman - “First Break All the
Rules: What The World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”
People don’t
leave bad jobs.
14. “Well, I generally come in at least
fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side
door - that way Lumbergh can't see
me, heh heh - and, uh, after that I just
sorta space out for about an hour…. I
just stare at my desk; but it looks like
I'm working. I do that for probably
another hour after lunch, too. I'd say
in a given week I probably only do
about fifteen minutes of real, actual,
work.”
- Peter Gibbons,
Office Space
30. "Here's a design, code a widget to these specs"
"Create a design for a system that enables these business
processes"
"What kind of systems do we need?"
"What need of the customer does our product need to fulfill?"
"What do we want our company's lasting impact to be on the
world?"
Levels of ambiguity
31. Why, then, do people
leave managers?
“People charged with
ensuring their success
don't care enough to
meet their needs as
valued employees and
human beings.”
https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/why-do-employees-quit-their-managers-heres-the-num.html