How Do You Prevent Your Boss From Interfering or Spoiling Your Work?
You don’t need to have a micromanagement boss or someone really crazy to feel the friction between boss and good work. How do you keep your boss (or manager, or client) from interfering in your work?
Author Rachel Kroll discusses the tendency of some people to always influence or change a project on her blog:
Have you ever noticed how some people want to “touch” everything that is done in the project, even if it has nothing to do with them? It doesn’t have to be huge, but it looks like they want only a small variance to be applied to all potential changes. It is as if they want to be able to point to any given part and say, “I am the cause of what happened.”
Kroll recalls a story in which a developer added a sacrificial, unnecessary duck character to an animated chess game, knowing the manager would say “just take the duck away” and leave the important things alone.
Sneaky? Yes. But sometimes, when working with difficult people, you have to resort to tricks to prevent the responsible employees from damaging your perfect snowflake.
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