How We Handle Email

Here is a conversation about Outlook email in the office.
 
M&M: Hey Trip whats with you? Why do you not archive?
 
Trip: I archive, its just that I do it manually.
 
M&M: Right, do you not know how to set rules?
 
Trip: I do, just prefer to do it manually.
 
M&M: Its really simple and the way you do it is just…uhmm.
 
Trip: It’s a matter of preference.

M&M: Well you know what your preference is dumb.
 
Trip: Fine, but I do archive
 
2nd leg of the convo
 
M&M: You know our section almost lost all our data, good thing my style saved us.
 
Trip: Yeah, what?
 
M&M: I blind copy myself every time I send something out.
 
Trip: You do know that there is such a thing as “sent items” when they invented the glorious marvel called email right?
 
M&M: Yeah but I delete that?
 
Trip: Why would you do that when that is what you should have been archiving anyway.
 
M&M: Yeah but its my preference.
 
Trip: Right. My thoughts exactly.
 
Vendetta: Can you both talk somewhere else, you have done nothing but disturb me

The Dirty Deed

I think forrest gump got it right. So much wisdom from such a simple mind.

The dirty deed in management is the decision to let go. You can read as many books as you can but when you meet the fork in the road called firing somebody, all of what or that you have read will not kick in. You go back to your primal instinct. After all, at least 80% of decisions made that lead to greatness were based on instinct. I am not saying that we do not believe what we read. All I am doing is echoing the tweet of a wiseman. My elder cousing Kuya Mark.

“Management programs contains too many dogmas.Make sure you filter them with experience.” – so much wisdom in such a little tweet.

Anyway, I would like to say I totally agree. We go through so much learning in life that sometimes it taints the instinct that pushes us toward the raw, the basic. My friends in the ratrace, simplify. Go back to the facts and decide. Make the psychedelic – black and white.

New Management Quote

This has evolved and has become into – “walk the talk” from “walking the walk, talking the talk”

To add to this marvelous metaphor evolution, in a training class a friend added “sing the song”

New quote: “Walking the walk, talking the talk and singing the song”

Notably Exposed

My job right now puts me in a place where I am exposed to a lot of different managerial behavior. Some of them are truly Filipino…

I have my colleague Vince to thank for this since he was the one who pointed this out to me. I did my share of observing and yes it really is true.

One of these behaviors is asking permission everytime we go to the John. Anywhere, anytime at work we do it. I am really not sure if this is a cultural phenomenon or something concerning Power Distance Index. But may it be a boss, a peer or a subordinate we are relating to, we ask permission. Oh and we do it so casually like it was any other work activity like “let me send an email”, it goes “dude, im gonna go pee”. Detailed as an encyclopedia we tell our colleagues when we are about to relieve ourselves on a health break.

Not that funny but notable. As you go to work today, try to keep a tickler and just make a list of colleagues that tell you this and you would be amazed.

Anyway, that is all for now. Gotta go pee.

Welcome to Managemeant!

This blog is an avenue where I will express what management means in our terms. How we see it and how it is happening. Of course the orientation is always kind of stemming from our Filipino culture although due to our international influence there are some congruencies and utter similarities on how we do what we do just as there are differences.

This blog will contain puns, jokes, quotations and other things for all of us to laugh at.

This blog is highly influenced by the philosophies of Dilbert and Dogbert.

This blog is and was created because of boredom and really awesome time management skills…

So here we go…