100% of managers nodding as they read this
100% of managers nodding as they read this
You can say all N managers in any organization are bad apart from two of them. Of course, managers want to assert that they're the good one (and some of them actually are), but they can't if you say one person is good, because to claim that spot would be to throw all your colleagues under the bus. But if you assert that you're one of the two good ones, then they can all claim to be one of the good ones without upsetting a specific person.
This is obviously not how it works at all, but I was very proud of myself.
There was a saying that I think also applies here: “Everybody knows who #1 is, and everybody thinks they’re #2”.
Made me laugh - but I think that's not quite fair.
1% of managers know they're useless and inefficient. Ironically, that puts them in the top 2%.
Might just be in my head though.