They may be introverted or extroverted, new to the role or with years of experience, heavily trained in management theory or have developed their approach through real-life experience.
But, at the end of the day, there are really only two kinds of managers – those who see their role to control others and those who see their role to support others.
The controlling ones are the micromanagers who ask you do to something then end up doing it ten minutes later anyhow since you didn’t do it immediately and probably wouldn’t do it right anyhow.
The supportive ones are the ones who ask you what you need to get a task done, check in to see how you’re doing and find ways to help you achieve the goal but otherwise stay out of the way.
What’s interesting in my experience is that there is a direct correlation between the amount of trust that staff have for the controlling type (not much!) versus the amount of trust that staff have for the supportive type (a lot!)
There’s some irony that the controlling ones often are that way because they don’t trust themselves! They lack confidence in their own abilities or their experience. They worry about getting in trouble or how they’ll be perceived by others. Meanwhile, the supportive ones tend to have a lot of self-confidence and will generally do the right thing or make the right call without over-thinking it or relying on others or whatever.
Eliud Kipchoge’s 1:59:40 marathon run is truly insane when you break down the numbers:
??4:35 per mile pace (the record for one mile is 3:43 and he kept the pace 26x) ??OR 2:50 per KM pace (he did it 42x and each kilometre was within 2:48 to 2:52) ??The average men’s marathon… pic.twitter.com/zGJ4LI6rhm
“Kremlin Backed Twitter Posting Troll Farm” – James Hargreaves (cover)
(Sorry, couldn’t find a version by the original artist but this song title alone makes it too good not to post!)
I wonder if anybody’s keeping track of how many people who are directly connected to or strongly affiliated with religion are being arrested for child porn/sexual abuse-type crimes versus how many people from the LGBTQ+ community are?
CW: ?? child exploitation
A Christian and Missionary Alliance pastor in #yqr charged with child p*rn. Let’s remember this when the loudest cries to “protect kids” from gender ideology come from that same system. pic.twitter.com/fXN0XEK5eW
It was a somewhat spontaneous decision but my aunt, who already visits from BC and stays with us for about a month every spring, decided to come back and will be staying with us for a few weeks again.
Pace ran into a tree and had to get stitches then, nearly a decade before Covid, used Skype to video chat with Grandpa and Grandma to show the war wounds…
MFJ might be one of my favourite wrestlers working today and this callback promo is exactly why – the guy lives wrestling and wrestling history and takes advantage of his current feud with Samoa Joe to perfectly evoke one of the best, funniest promos in wrestling history:
Heard about this book after seeing a mention on a FB music group that Jason Isbell had a part in an upcoming Scorsese/DeNiro/DeCaprio film which was going to be based on the book.
Picked it up and it was a pretty good read, not least because it’s set in Oklahoma but talks about a lot of things that are relevant to life in Saskatchewan – poor treatment of Indigenous people, oil rights (and related greed), and even the “wild west” mentality that still exists in some ways, even one hundred years after the events in the book.
