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A BFF Based Company
Companies that are managed by the buddy boss (BFF-Boss) are just as dangerous. These hire the people that are either only like them in personality or are close friends. The employee’s are hired only because of their relationship to the boss or manager whether they can do the job or not. We all know what happens when you photocopy a print too many times, it becomes blurry and ruined. How can you develop any new ideas when you only have those with one like mind?
Buddy managers (BFF-Boss) will never understand someone saying, “I would work for a company for less money if only the company would not treat me like an outsider and make me feel like I was not involved personally”. Their response would be: “Outsider!!?!!” Good I wanted to hire my drinking buddy anyways so saves me from firing that gloomy person from my team.
A Reverse Pyramid Based Company
Here you are working for a company that realizes that sales are increased only by creatively promoting the strengths within the organization in a manner that webmasters/clients can understand. The employee’s that usually are the base of any organization where the management is at the top suddenly find themselves as the most valuable part of the organization. The pyramid is reversed. Face it a manager is to only manage employee’s – they are the driving force of the company. A true manager serves not dictates the employee's.
If you ask me which part of a pyramid I would rather depend on for possible success the thick side with more people or the thin side – I would choose the thick. Yet some companies would rather not rely on their employee’s feeling they are either too dumb (which surprises me since you hired them), or simply don’t trust them (which still surprises me since you hired them) or finally that they are only a number and don’t really have any significance in the overall decisions of a company. That means they weren’t important to begin with which still surprises me even more since, YOU HIRED THEM!! So start hiring qualified employee’s that can benefit the company rather than hiring someone who is now ‘fire-able’ at any time.
Here a company is now focused on their strengths as a whole rather than who’s in charge. Your not into price wars that focus’s the webmasters attention only on getting the best PPS or gift prizes, instead you are focused on services provided that leave the impression, “why wouldn’t I sign up with these guys?”.
Each employee is a valued member of the team and is seen as Buckminster Fuller once said “there is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”
Creative managers will understand someone saying, “I would work for a company for less money if only to give me the chance to expand a part of myself that at this time I am unable to do here because that’s someone else’s job”. Their response is: “Awesome, best wishes and if you need a letter of recommendation you have it.”
These managers train people to be future managers down the road. Whether they end up at their current job or somewhere else who knows. They work on improving their employee’s by giving them self-confidence, recognition for their work along with taking time to listen and teach them. A good manager doesn’t have to know everything about their job – only hire those who do. If an employee surpasses you then that is the greatest achievement you can hope for. The good manager sets targets and date sensitive goals then trusts their team to reach them. If missed then a stern warning is made, but the employee’s future is in THEIR hands to succeed or fail NOT the managers. Should they get fired then an employee will know that they have no one else to blame but themselves.
Yet they likely will stay with the company providing beneficial advice and creative solutions to increase sales and the company’s profile. Webmasters will appreciate their wisdom and assistance which in turn means referrals. Your company is not dying from within.
Arthur Koestler once said creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. A “Manager” is only a title that someone else at the time gave you hoping you would display these characteristics – or you added to yourself hoping it would give you power since you didn’t like being called sales. Yet having that title doesn’t mean you are qualified, but if you follow some advice and wisdom from others – learn to listen and thank those who have helped you along then you may earn that big fancy title you possess.
Company management wishing to raise their bottom line as they watch sales drop need to then start rethinking that maybe it’s not your employee’s effectiveness but yourself. In failure everyone points fingers to those lower in the company food chain. In success the finger turns around to themselves. I wish sometimes that was reversed. A change of attitude is what is needed if your company is failing and no creative ideas are left. Rid yourself now of accountant run, micro-managing, self-absorbed management teams and start rebuilding from the top down.
Now you will have valued employee’s who care a great deal more about your company and make extra effort that is not forced to work harder for the success. They will have inner fire and energy when speaking of you and your company – infectious and boisterous that it self is infection to others, especially webmasters.
Good luck.
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