MANAGEMENT BY WALKING AROUND

A few years ago, I was a victim of the 'management by walking around' practice. Having been a staff myself, it confused me tremendously why management and executives have to do the rounds by walking around, pretending to be really curious and interested of personnel's work. What exactly can be derived by walking around the hall other than disturbing staff' precious time focused on real work and getting into chitchat with those that have nothing to do at the moment.

Visibility is good when there is a strategic purpose to visibility. Visibility alone is nothing.

Creating real genuine interpersonal relations is good but when it gets down to work, your boss is not your friend and vice-versa. 

Also, this family vibe in many companies and organizations is also fake. This is not a family relation, this is business and you have a job to do and will get appraise at the next six-month mark. 

There is a tremendous waste of monies and time on team building exercises meant to look like everyone is having a happy time, fetching water, building sand castles, catching people up when they fall, rappelling down ravines -all in the name of team work. There is no team work in that superficial encounters. 

Real team work is about solving real problems and challenges as a team and experiencing satisfction from joint accomplishments.

He found me cutting some papers for my program activity for children. "This is work," I told him and he said, "good job," and turned around.

Nuf said. ​