Clocked In and Checked Out

From the title, this sounds like a post that belongs in my “Employees Behaving Badly” category. However, this one is just for CEOs. Listen fella, when you run a dysfunctional company you get dysfunctional behavior. Here’s some sure-fire ways to de-motivate your workforce and pay people salaries for a) job hunting while on the clock, b) texting their friends, c) gaming, and d) gossiping/visiting with coworkers.

• Hold no one accountable. Let your top managers do their own thing and not follow established policies.
• Be unethical. Spend the day golfing with your buddies and call it “business development.”
• Call someone a liar. Tell someone who raises a valid concern to the CEO level that they are the only one in the company who feels that way.
• Be discriminatory. Promote and give raises only to white men who like to go out drinking with you after work.
• Shift gears continuously. Totally change the focus, vision, and/or strategy based solely on an article you happened to see in a business magazine and claim that it is a good business decision.
• Make business decisions that stroke your ego.
• Gossip/Trash your staff. Crap runs down the hill buddy. When you bad mouth your employees to other employees, you set a tone that permeates throughout the entire company.
• BS. Call it “collaboration” when the fact is you don’t have a clue or an answer, so you sit back and watch your managers hash out things over which they have no authority.
• Fail to model the way. Act like an ass and others will follow suit.