{"id":1614,"date":"2011-08-10T01:08:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T00:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2011-08-10T01:08:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T00:08:23","slug":"what-it-looks-like-when-a-manager-really-supports-their-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2011\/08\/10\/what-it-looks-like-when-a-manager-really-supports-their-team\/","title":{"rendered":"What it looks like when a manager REALLY supports their team…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve encountered many managers who are in love with the IDEA of supporting their team, but not the REALITY.<\/p>\n

Typical examples:<\/p>\n

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  1. “My team are great. I push them hard and they deliver great stuff on time” (in reality: the team resents the bullying, self-aggrandizing jerk)\n
  2. “I’d do anything for my team. When they’re working til midnight for me, I stay late too – I even buy them pizzas!” (subtext: they’re worth $6.99 for 4 hours of overtime, and no sleep. Also: they should be grateful I even stayed around, playing minesweeper while they worked)\n
  3. “I like to think of myself as a sh*t-umbrella: I take the sh*t for my team from my boss” (easy to say when “sh*t” is nothing more than a few vague fears about quality; but what about when the REAL sh*t arrives; is that swishing sound you hear the sound of your manager covering their own ass? Or just of them throwing you into the path of danger, a human-shield to protect them?)\n<\/ol>\n

    So, here’s a refreshing (if somewhat old) counter-example:<\/p>\n

    How Pixar Bosses Saved Their Employees from Layoffs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’ve encountered many managers who are in love with the IDEA of supporting their team, but not the REALITY. Typical examples: “My team are great. I push them hard and they deliver great stuff on time” (in reality: the team resents the bullying, self-aggrandizing jerk) “I’d do anything for my team. When they’re working til […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}