Don’t Do This | Bad Management Style
Different leaders have different leadership styles. However, lying, manipulation, yelling, etc., is not a great way to manage a good business. In this video, Matt watches what is hopefully a satire but unfortunately is real to some people. If you take one thing away from this video, please let it be to not be a jerk to your employees.
There are tons of people out on social media giving business advice. Some of it is good advice, but most of it isn’t good. In this series watch CapForge’s owner react to different advice videos. He’s an expert in all things business and has 20+ years of experience under his belt. Some of the things he reacts to might even surprise you!
Video Transcript:
Business Advice Video:
I use a combination of lies, manipulation, cheating, stealing, gaslighting, bullying, insulting, and flexing to make sure that everybody in my office stays under my thumb where I want them.
Matt’s Review:
Okay, I’m sure some people are like that. I think that is a terrible way to run a business. I think this was meant tongue in cheek though, hopefully. I don’t think this was meant as a serious list of management skills, lying, cheating, gaslighting, etc. So I guess you really could look at that list as the opposite. If you’re doing those things to manage your business, manage the employees, then those are the behaviors that you really need to cut out, stop, if you expect to get maximum productivity and efficiency out of the people that work for you. If you want to have people who are looking to, you know, do their utmost to do the least, to milk the clock and be unproductive and inefficient and cause you many more headaches than you’ll ever see results from, then, you know, yes, do all those things. That would be a great way to manage a terrible business, but a terrible way to manage a great business.
