The 7 Deadly Sins of Managers
April 29, 2008 by David Zinger
Filed under Business
Are you in the management sin bin? by David Zinger

Do you work with win/win or the 7 deadly sins?

- Pride - thinking you know it all, can do it all, as you raise your chin and ride with pride up the office elevator to your job as the assistant to the assistant manager of office copy supplies.
- Envy - coveting your co-workers corner office, laptop, or project team.
- Gluttony – reading more and more management books and blog posts without digesting even one idea.
- Lust – craving the best looking administrative assistant even though that person has absolutely no skills relevant to the work that must be done.
- Anger -going into a math wrath about the numbers not being what they should be or could be as you sting others like a bee.
- Greed – wanting another and another and another promotion as you don’t really work at anything except promoting yourself.
- Sloth – Avoiding all work, confrontations, and discussion of results and stating that you work best at home because there are less distractions (meaning you can nap and nobody will notice).
Use the comment section to write about any manager sins you have spotted.
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My “favorite” manager sin: Ignoring the unique skills, traits and interests that team members bring to the table in favor of enforcing rigid, impersonal job descriptions.
Thanks Karl. Ignoring could be the 8th. deadly sin, perhaps also related to sloth.
Have you seen this site? People are confessing their sins online at http://iconfessmyself.blogspot.com
I must confess, I have not been to that site.