Three Current Modern Management Scams - Part 1

Welcome to manager tools. This is Sarah. And I'm Mark. Today's podcast, three current modern management scams, part one of two. As always, our content has been crafted by humans and is now certified by the Proudly Human Corporation. The questions this cast answers are, how can I tell what popular management guidance to follow? What is Manager Tools' opinion of generational management? Should I have a dialogue with my directs when I give negative feedback? Are engagement surveys a good idea? If you want answers to these questions and more, keep listening. Every year, we hear the exact same thing from attendees of the effective manager conference. What comes next? Well, the answer is the effective senior manager conference, and the next one is happening March 12 in Austin. This isn't a repeat of what you've already learned. It's the next level. The same practical, actionable, no nonsense guidance that you've come to expect from manager tools built specifically for senior managers ready to tackle bigger challenges and lead at a higher level. If you've been wondering what comes after the effective manager conference, this is it. Visit manager-tools.com/austinesmc, that's austinesmc, to learn more and secure your spot today. So today, we are talking about some current common management scams, essentially. And for those folks who've been listening to us for a while, it's gonna be a bit of a compendium of some of the guidance that you've maybe heard in other podcasts. I love that we're releasing it today because we have so many new people part of the community who haven't found this guidance yet or don't know this guidance yet. And now that we've got, like, 2,000 podcasts, finding all of those individual podcasts is gonna be trickier for those individuals. So today, we're just gonna bring together three of those ideas that that for some of you might be familiar, but some of you might be new and different. And if they get touched by these, they could dig into the other podcast, particularly engagement, which I think I mentioned in this cast, we wrote a 100,000 words on engagement, even though we hate it. Exactly. Exactly. So basically management scams are inevitable. There's no way around it. There's two reasons for them. First, the mass the vast majority of people who write about management don't know what they're talking about. Either they're a 25 year old who's just starting their career, has a social media outlet for giving advice, which is inevitably bad. And they might say they learned about it in school, but they did not learn about it in an undergraduate program because management in terms of how managers manage people, is not taught. It's not even taught in MBA programs either. It's not taught in psychology. It's not taught in organizational theory because the professors don't know anything about it. Or the other thing is they're a company whose business it is to sell new manager training to large companies who …