Carragee Consulting

Rules for successful management
1) Blame the messenger and kill Cassandra
2) Make a 5 year plan and quit after 3
3) Only take ownership of systems before the warranty wears off
4) Make sure your key support people feel their contributions are low value and interchangeable so they don’t feel empowered to find higher paid work elsewhere.

I worked for a company during the 2009 great recession that laid off 15% of the workforce. Inevitably they chose some of the wrong people, including the one guy who could program changes on the legacy handheld system the route sales driver used to generate invoices. Try pulling off a financial turnaround without invoices…

Link to Vin Vashishta’s LinkedIn post which inspired this