In Defense of “Yes Men”
As a mid-level manager I am finally coming to appreciate why some executives fall into the trap of surrounding themselves with people who agree with them.
I am tired fed up with going into a status meeting with a project team and getting questioned week after week after week about why we are doing this or spending money on that or why aren’t we doing something completely different.
I understand that techs think they know what is the best technology to implement. Hell, they do! I understand that because that is from whence I come.
But at some point it is time to salute, charge up the hill and get the damn thing done.
I wonder if “yes man” is applied to often to those that can just get things done.
I am fed up with managers who tell me how to do my f’ing job. If managers would quit telling their employees how to accomplish something instead of asking them how to accomplish something, maybe more managers would find that more of their employees fit into their definition of a “Yes Man.”
I don’t see at any point when I said I was telling someone how to do their job, ’cause I don’t. I don’t care how something gets done. But the task is on the task plan so just git ‘er done!
Ahh, nothing like a little Micro-Management to completly kill a good operation.
And yes, Get’er Done!
NastyDawg… OUT!
Again, missing the point! Put it on Linux or NT, I don’t care. Code it in Python, Java, C++, PHP, .NET or APL (bet ya never even heard of that one), again … I don’t care. Tell me you need training for a new authentication method or web service, tell me you need to buy a new control, whatever.
I don’t tell people how to get it done. That’s their job to tell me. And they do. I work with with some of the best in the business.
But with being the best comes a huge ego and they always have to argue about my job too. I’m willing to let that happen to a point.
But it does get tiresome.