If the scale is the most frightening element in the doctor’s office, what is its equivalent in the workplace?
Some nominees:
- The weekly staff meeting
- The annual performance evaluation
- The CEO reading a best seller on management
- Clearing things with Legal
- 360 degree feedback
- The cafeteria’s contribution to Diversity Day
- Waking up in a strange room the morning after the office party
- Reorganizations
- Lean and hungry interns
- The "Reply All" button
- The boss’s spouse
- The boss’s secretary
- Government audits
- Being assigned to Siberia
- Unhinged coworkers
- Weasels
- Consultants with an undisclosed agenda
- Motivational retreats
- Six Sigma
- Supervising peers
- Meetings in which everyone pretends they know what is going on.
Michael Wade writes Execupundit.com, an eclectic combination of management advice, observations, and links. A partner with the Phoenix firm of Sanders Wade Rodarte Consulting Inc., he has advised private and public-sector organizations for more than 30 years.
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