Managing The Business @ManagingTheBiz

🚨 “My Door is Always Open” – Said the Boss Who Never Leaves Their Office. 🚨 Bad leaders think “checking in” means: 📌 Sending an email once a quarter. 📌 Asking “How’s everything going?” but not actually listening. 📌 Showing up only when something is wrong. Then they wonder…

🚨 “We’ve Always Done It This Way” – The Motto of Teams Getting Crushed by Automation. 🚨 If your job consists of: 🔄 Copying & pasting data all day. 🔄 Manually approving the same requests. 🔄 Doing repetitive tasks that a script could handle in seconds… Congratulations,…

🚨 I Watched a Company Drown in Buzzwords And Accomplish Nothing. 🚨 Leadership held an all-hands meeting. 🎤 The goal? “Drive synergy to optimize our cross-functional alignment.” Translation? No one had a clue what was actually happening. 📢 “We need to leverage our core…

🚨 “We Can’t Afford to Lose Anyone” – The Excuse That Keeps Bad Employees Around. 🚨 A farmer doesn’t grow the biggest pumpkins by keeping every vine. They cut the weak ones so the strong ones can thrive. 🎃✂️ Yet in the workplace? 📌 Underperformers stay for years. 📌 Toxic…

🚨 I Once Tried to Do Everything And Ended Up Going Nowhere. 🚨 At one point, I was: 📌 Chasing every opportunity. 📌 Saying yes to everything. 📌 Spreading myself so thin, I had no real impact. Meanwhile, the people winning? ✅ Focused on their strengths. ✅ Doubled down on…

🚨 “Trust Your Gut” – The Worst Business Strategy Ever. 🚨 Bad leaders make decisions like: 📢 “This feels right.” (It isn’t.) 📢 “We’ve always done it this way.” (And it’s still broken.) 📢 “I just have a good feeling about this.” (Your feelings aren’t data.) Meanwhile, the…

🚨 I Once Watched a Company Treat IT Like a Cost - Then Panic When Everything Broke. 🚨 Leadership saw IT as just another expense. 💰 So they cut budgets, delayed upgrades, and ignored warnings. Then one day .... a massive outage. 💀 Suddenly, IT became urgent. 📢 “Why didn’t we…

🚨 “Let’s Have a Quick Meeting” – The Biggest Lie in Corporate History. 🚨 It starts with one vague calendar invite. 🗓️ Then comes the pointless small talk. ☕ Then, an hour of people talking in circles. 🎡 End result? ❌ No decisions made. ❌ No action items. ❌ Just another…

🚨 “We’ll Figure It Out as We Go” – The Motto of Teams That Never Scale. 🚨 If every task feels like reinventing the wheel, your company doesn’t have a workflow, it has a guessing game. 🔄 Repetitive issues? No documented process. 🛑 Bottlenecks everywhere? Everything relies on…

🚨 I Watched a Company Ignore Reality And It Crashed Hard. 🚨 The numbers were bad. 📉 The customers were unhappy. 😡 The team saw all the warning signs. 🚨 But leadership? 📢 “We just need to stay positive!” 📢 “Let’s focus on wins, not problems!” 📢 “If we BELIEVE hard enough,…

🚨 “We Need a Better Strategy!” – No, You Need Better People. 🚨 Companies love to obsess over plans, frameworks, and roadmaps. But put the wrong people in charge? 💀 The plan fails. 💀 The roadmap is useless. 💀 The company burns while leadership holds another meeting. 🤡 The…

🚨 I Watched a Workplace Collapse Because “Rules Didn’t Apply to Everyone” 🚨 There were written policies. 📜 There were expectations. 📌 But in reality? Different rules for different people. 💀 One person showed up late? Instant write-up. 💀 Another did the same? “Oh, they’re a…

🚨 “We’re Working on It” – The Motto of Teams Drowning in Unfinished Work. 🚨 You know what’s worse than not starting a project? Starting 10 at the same time and finishing none. 🔹 Tasks in progress? Too many. 🔹 Deadlines? Slipping. 🔹 Bottlenecks? Everywhere. And when…

🚨 “Let’s Move Fast!” – Says the Company That Requires 12 Approvals for a Stapler. 🚨 Nothing kills innovation faster than bureaucracy. You have a great idea. 💡 But first, you need: 📌 A proposal. 📌 A review committee. 📌 A 47-slide PowerPoint for leadership. Weeks later… 📢…

🚨 I Once Tried to Be Everything to Everyone. Big Mistake. 🚨 I thought more services = more opportunities. So I said yes to everything. 💀 Too many projects. 💀 Too many distractions. 💀 No clear value. Meanwhile, competitors who specialized were winning. Why? Because they…

🚨 “Just Do Your Job” – The Fastest Way to Kill Engagement. 🚨 People don’t wake up excited to push buttons, fill out spreadsheets, or sit in meetings that should’ve been emails. They want: 💡 Purpose – Knowing their work actually matters. 💪 Worthwhile Challenges – Doing…

🚨 “We Need to Be More Efficient!” – Then Stop Blocking Progress. 🚨 Companies love to talk about improving operations. But when it’s time to actually fix things? ❌ Flow? Drowned in red tape. ❌ Feedback? Leadership ignores it. ❌ Continuous learning? “No budget for training,…

🚨 “This Shouldn’t Take Long” – Said the Manager Who Has Never Done the Job. 🚨 You ever sit in a meeting where leadership confidently makes the worst possible decision because they have no clue how things actually work? 📌 They cut budgets, then wonder why projects are late.…

🚨 I Once Bent Over Backwards for a Bad Client And Regretted It. 🚨 They were high maintenance. 🎭 They drained time, energy, and resources. ⏳ They negotiated every price down, then expected VIP treatment. 🤡 Meanwhile, my best clients? ✅ Paid on time. ✅ Respected…

🚨 I Watched Two Leaders Handle Success - One Built a Legacy, the Other Built a Mess. 🚨 Leader A: Humble, driven, focused on the team. ✅ Gave credit where it was due. ✅ Listened more than they talked. ✅ Made decisions based on what was best for the company, not their own…