There are a lot of blogs describing the daily job of a Product Manager spited per industry like: software development, services etc.
But, through the hundred of blogs that I have read there are no posts regarding how to deal with the frustration that an authorial working environment may create.
There are managers who yell at their own team in the middle of an open office. Almost everyone is feeling frustrated and is looking his/her own PC monitor. What are they thinking? Probably, he/she is happy that this time is not yelling at him/her.
I’m just asking myself if in any management book/course there are trainers that encourage the yelling at people in public in oder to motivate them…in order to increase the productivity. I do not believe this….If you know any book, please let me know because I’m very interested in reading it.
The reason I do not understand and I will never support this tool of improving the quality of people work is simple. I do not believe in it. In the same situation in school when a teacher yells or even bits a child for any reasons. Will the child learn more after this? NO. Will the child go home with the feedback that he/she has done something bad? NO, the child will go home with frustration…lack of interest in school and in learning.
I do not have an answer for the question why do people still act like this if they know (they have to know) that creating this frustration will not solve the issue.
Well, life is sad…work is still just work…and life goes on.
Btw, I’m not a manager (I have never managed a team at work) but wouldn’t be more justified to fire somebody instead of yalling at him/her?
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Tags: product management