German business weekly Wirtschaftswoche is running an article about people management, titled "Leading like a cat".
Summarizing: managers behave more like cats, subordinates more like dogs, and it is important to make the transition, be able to use both approaches in order to be a charismatic leader.
K-Landnews evaluation: complete bullshit.
We do not dismiss the perfectly good uses of images, metaphors, and illustrations in writeups about people management. The worn out cats and dogs imagery, well, if you as a publication are willing to pay money for that, so be it.
The K-Landnews would simply like to remind everybody that we can all write great little people management guidelines by taking an arbitrary example and expounding on it.
Do you remember the former US mobster who wrote a book about what mainstream, presumably law abiding managers could learn from the way the mob does business? If you have missed it, look it up.
The K-Landnews has several ready made management concepts in a drafts folder waiting for the right time to make some money.
Help yourself to this list of cutting edge management concepts:
Manage like a butterfly
Manage like a ferret
Manage like a queen bee
Manage like a solar flare
Please leave these concepts to our editors:
Manage by not managing
Manage like a farmer
Manage like a bonobo
A new seasonal technique we may describe next year around the end of November would be "Manage like a Thanksgiving turkey".
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