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All Employees Are Different. Or Are They?
by Jeff Lipschultz on Feb 8th, 2010
As if being the boss wasn't hard enough, in France, you can get "kidnapped" by your employees for doing a poor job. In the States, there are plenty of challenges keeping our teams happy with so many economic downsides to the job--no raises, no bonus, no 401(k) match. This requires managers to be more creative in building a strong bond with their teams.
My wife and I were discussing some of these management challenges the other night over some wine. Bad combination, I know. Don't drink and manage. We talked about how we've been coached to recognize that no two employees are the same and they all need to be managed differently. I said, "That's a lot of work to be twenty different kinds of manager, isn't it?" My wife smirked and my mind raced leveraging the fuel supplied by fermented grapes from, of all places, France.
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