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Rules for Stifling Innovation & Change

Often when we are surrounded by uncertainty and threat we may adopt less than a positive leadership or management style.

Act Your Age & Not Your Shoe Size

Just when we need to input of others to help us through the recession defensive management can kick in. Note, are you, your colleagues or any of your direct reports adopting this style.

Regard any suggestion from below with suspicion because it is new and because it is from below
Guard data carefully. People may justify their requests for information. You don't want data falling into the wrong hands
Insist that people who need your approval to act go through several other levels of management to get their signatures first
Express your criticisms freely and withhold praise. (This keeps people on their toes.)
Keep people guessing about their futures. Keep standards vague so people never feel that they have done enough
Make decisions to re - organise or to change policies in secret, and spring them on people unexpectedly. This also creates an unnecessary sense of urgency and threat
Set up competitions between departments. Get them to criticise each other's proposals and then choose the winner
Never forget that you already know everything important about the business and please avoid the Ars*hole management style as wittingly told by Bob Sutton Business Professor at Stanford University in Connecticut, USA

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