Dean’s Rules For Managers To Live By
1. If you can’t do your subordinates’ job, you shouldn’t be managing them.
2. Never forget that you, the manager, were once a worker.
3. Always remember, your subordinates have lives too.
4. Never ask a subordinate to do a task or job that you are either unwilling or unable to do.
5. If a subordinate asks you a question, make every effort to answer the question as quickly and as accurately as possible.
6. If a subordinate makes a request and it is feasible based on the facts at hand, grant it. If you cannot grant the request, explain fully why not.
7. As a manager and a leader, you must remain calm and collected at all times.
8. Those beneath you support you. Without their support, you will fall. Without their work and dedication, you are nothing.
9. Never make a promise, comment, or statement that you will not stand by or keep.
10. Back your subordinates up. Never leave them “hanging out to dry.”
11. All disciplinary measures should be in-house and confidential. Praise in public, punish in private.
By Dean Tabor
Copyright 1990 by Dean Tabor at http://www.tomstrong.org/public/misc/rules.for.managers.txt
1. If you can’t do your subordinates’ job, you shouldn’t be managing them.
2. Never forget that you, the manager, were once a worker.
3. Always remember, your subordinates have lives too.
4. Never ask a subordinate to do a task or job that you are either unwilling or unable to do.
5. If a subordinate asks you a question, make every effort to answer the question as quickly and as accurately as possible.
6. If a subordinate makes a request and it is feasible based on the facts at hand, grant it. If you cannot grant the request, explain fully why not.
7. As a manager and a leader, you must remain calm and collected at all times.
8. Those beneath you support you. Without their support, you will fall. Without their work and dedication, you are nothing.
9. Never make a promise, comment, or statement that you will not stand by or keep.
10. Back your subordinates up. Never leave them “hanging out to dry.”
11. All disciplinary measures should be in-house and confidential. Praise in public, punish in private.
By Dean Tabor
Copyright 1990 by Dean Tabor at http://www.tomstrong.org/public/misc/rules.for.managers.txt