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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (177487)	4/17/2009 12:02:51 AM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 225578

At the time, everybody I worked with talked about the Grid and described our leaders and coworkers by where we thought they fit on the Grid. If you've heard of Glenn Beck's 9/12 project and what's happening nation-wide right now, there's a place for it. Socialists are 1,9s. Little concern for production but high concern for people. Gordon Ghekko would be a 9,1; that is, maximum concern for production but no concern for people. These are the people who say greed is good, no matter the consequences. Barack Obama would be a 1,9 with a 5,5 backup style, in my judgment. The 5,5 style is not really some kind of desirable compromise between the two vectors of concern. Rather it's a perversion, where the holder says one thing and does another, either through cluelessness or unwillingness to commit, but can always point to some great aspect of what he's done. A 5,5 manager just muddles along. George Bush might be a primary 5,5. A truly effective manager is a 9,9, with maximum concern for both people and production. I think Ronald Reagan is the best example of this style. Newt Gingrich is the only contemporary politician that comes to my mind, and I'm sure lots of people disagree. I don't know of any other politicians who fit this style. Some successful CEOs, the CEO of Costco for example, are probably 9,9s. They put out the goods and the people, including both employees and customers, are happy about it. There's been a lot of talk about John Galt, from Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. John Galt probably would be difficult to fit on the Managerial Grid because he represents the principle of the individual to the exclusion of the group. I can't remember that much about him, but as a corporate manager he might be a 9,9 simply because it makes him the most money. All these statements are wild guesses on my part. In the Managerial Grid course I took, each assessment of style was made after excruciating debate, which took hours. The course was not that much fun, and it was emotionally exhausting. But it might be a good idea to resurrect the Managerial Grid.