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shadow management #690

Open silky opened 1 year ago

silky commented 1 year ago

here's a proposal for your organisation:

you could consider implementing a "shadow management" structure.

what they would do is show up to every place management makes decisions, in any form, and then provide reactionary and critical commentary to the employees, generally arguing that the proposed idea is terrible in ways that are extremely obvious to them; reminding all the employees that they should've been the ones to get the non-shadow jobs, and proposing alternatives that typically sound good and promising but which they have no power to enact.

then, every so often, the employees can opt to switch the shadow management to be in power, and they'll get the same thing in the other direction.

constraints: