Genie Power: I wish it was true
July 26, 2008 by David Zinger
Filed under Business
What are your 3 management wishes?
Slacker Manager Readers Respond. Here is a selection of responses from Slacker Manager readers on 3 wishes they would like a Genie to grant. The 3 types of wishes were:
- The wish I would grant for the people I manage is…
- The wish I would grant for the organization is…
- The wish I would grant for myself is…
I alternated the display of wishes between red and black:
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happiness, regardless of their choice to work for me or my company.
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the necessary vision to move forward.
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that every decision I made as a manager, I knew the outcome ahead of time.
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to be more confident with their abilities
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they’re a real talented bunch! to be more considerate of the individual, and not be so overly focussed on the bottom-line
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the wisdom to be able to continue to develop my team into an effective unit and lead the organisation into unfamiliar territory.
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the courage to try and to accept failure
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the ability to prioritize and pick the “right” projects
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receiving the above two wishes
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I wish I actually had authority over the people I matrix manage — that way, they would get clear direction and know where they stand and understand there are consequences and rewards for their actions. Instead they are just drifting in the wind without clear direction.
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Clear lines of authority inside the organization as well as outside to the org’s sub.
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The power to bestow the internal motivation that each great employee needs.
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They would make more deals!
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They would have a clear mission!
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I could find a new job!
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that they would feel their worth and potential
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to achieve goals set
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and satisfaction in my contributions
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be proactive
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listen to the employees
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improve leadership
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To give them the power to estimate correctly.
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To stop them from trying to cram so much into our products that it reduces our quality.
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To be a manager.
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Work Life balance
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Effective communication
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Reaching top
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To make more money
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To make more money
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To make more money
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that they are fulfilled with what the job is providing them.
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that it values its clients and its employees and not just the dollars attached to them.
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that I remember no fire is greater than the time I have for my family
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Better pay and benefits.
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Customers with clear goals and ideas.
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Better pay and working environment.
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that people would always think before speaking or acting.
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to function as a supportive team without the deceptive, dishonest tactics.
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a job that I love!
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Be intelligent, proactive, flexible enough
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Intelligent, proactive, flexible enough
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Live in a world with people and organization intelligent, proactive, flexible enough
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Self Starters
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Systematization
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Better Leader
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A recognition of success from the highest levels of the organization
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The ability to see that communicating even the smallest triumph can greatly enhance the overall success of the organization.
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More time to make the first two happen.
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Bigger salary
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Bigger profits
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Bigger salary
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more time to enjoy life
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better sharing of ideas and innovation that works
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see above.
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Straight Answers
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More Snow
- Team Players
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That they can be a genie like me.
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That it can be the best genie driven organization in the world.
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That I am the best at what I do.
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To feel as though they are doing the best they can each day.
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Strong and sustainable growth.
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To build the most respected group of its type in the world and to be considered an excellent project and people manager.
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People to be happy
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Where taxes and the prices on food, gas, etc, would be affordable for everyone
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A life I have been dreaming of since the first day of this summer vacation to be real, not in a dream, but real where I can actually explore it, real as in I’m actually in it like how I am in this world, a life where I am really slim, slender, really, really gorgeous to the point everyone thinks I’m really beautiful, sexy, really gorgeous, a life where I really do have an older brother and yet still have my same little brother, a life where my dad will not be miserable because he is rich, have 3 children that makes him proud, the life where I’m a prodigy in everything (skateboarding, surfboarding, mountain boarding, pen-spinning, guitar, EVERYTHING including singing) the life I have been imaging, I want that to be real as this world and this life I’m living in right now have never exist but I still have a memory of it.
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Increased motivation in the face of constant rejection (they sell appointments for Home Improvements)
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An upgraded IT capability that lets us communicate and do business online (with internal customers)
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The patience to suffer the ignorance of non-connected, non-techie, non-communicative management.
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I wish Ii could get a job for free at McDonald’s
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I wish my dad would keep his room organized
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I wish I could make wishes everyday for the rest of my life
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