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“Ninety percent of what we call ‘management’ consists of making it difficult for people to get get things done” – Peter Drucker

If you believe this classic Drucker quote to be true, then whenever you receive an executive e-mail that contains the standard MBA textbook words “effective immediately”, mentally replace them with “ineffective immediately”. That way, you won’t be disappointed or surprised when your local work environment doesn’t change at all, or it changes for the worse.

To be fair, managers, like you and me, are just trying their best to make things better for all stakeholders. It’s just that they, for the most part (90% to be exact) have no clue on how to go about doing that.