27 Dynamic Power Phrases for Managers
Years ago there was a popular book called The One Minute Manager. Who has a minute anymore in 2008? We need to shorten our management time cycles.
Why read a textbook when you can text? Why read when you can scan? Why have a conversation when you can interact with the people you manage with just two words.
Think of all the time you will save when you respond to everything with just two words.
Here are 27 power phrases to get you started on the path to being a 2-word manager:
If you care to comment, please make sure you do it in 2 words. Got that?
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17 opinions for 27 Dynamic Power Phrases for Managers
sabrina
Feb 19, 2008 at 5:26 am
But…but…
You forgot
Stop it!
Oh well.
Mike King
Feb 19, 2008 at 7:07 am
Try again.
Nice try.
Keep going.
Don’t stop.
Your problem.
No way.
Courtney I
Feb 19, 2008 at 12:15 pm
I notice “thank you” isn’t there!
“Sounds good” I hear a lot when managers aren’t really sure what you’re talking about.
t h rive
Feb 19, 2008 at 12:54 pm
“We’ll assume…” usually comes before implying that their method is the best (or only).
David Zinger
Feb 19, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Thank You
Well Done
Good Comments
Any more?
Robert Last
Feb 19, 2008 at 5:05 pm
I cannot express how strongly I disagree with your concept. It is a symptom of the search for easy answers that has come to dominate our society. It is injurious to every working manager and serious leader that tries to do their best for their people, organization and customers.
This simplification of the complex is an excellent example of the “dumbing-down” that inhabits so many organizations. Leadership is HARD, management is HARD and both should be practiced by adults that can make a difference. Two word management is not the way to make a difference; ask the Founding Fathers, FDR, JFK, MLK, Gene Krantz and the NYFD on September 11, 2001. They went way beyond a two-word philosophy.
David Zinger
Feb 19, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Robert,
I think you just did express how strong you disagree with a 2-word management system.
I disagree that is injurious as this was satire. Good management is HARD and soft, SERIOUS and playful, REVERENT and irreverent.
When the tough management decisions were taking place for the NYFD on September 11 you don’t joke around. Yet I have been around enough fire department members and police officers to know that humor helps and if they can laugh they can last. Walt Whitman once said, “do I contradict myself, very well I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.” I believe an effective slacker manager can both laugh and cry and is not locked into either perspective on themselves or their management.
I think you have miscontrued this as a real proposed management method and if you did I have two sincere words for you: I’m sorry. The two-word system was to be playful about the lack of authentic connection not to advocate for 2 word intercourse between managers and the people they manage.
I encourage you to look at the image to accompany the post. It was the number 2 with the old fashion hand sign for peace, it was never my intent to be disrespectful to any of the great leaders you referred to or the tought times that call upon great leaders and managers to do their best.
David
JD
Feb 20, 2008 at 1:30 am
Got it
So what
Now what
Dont yet
Not bad
David Zinger
Feb 20, 2008 at 5:07 am
Chris,
Right on.
Write on.
David
Praveen Jhurani
Feb 20, 2008 at 10:51 pm
All done?
You think?
Can we?
Not really
Cut it
David Zinger
Feb 21, 2008 at 4:37 am
Praveen,
Good points.
David
st4rbux
Feb 22, 2008 at 8:14 am
(nice list.)
my bad.
show me.
help me.
why not?
great effort.
try again.
need help?
take five.
I’ll buy…
Ken
Feb 22, 2008 at 6:24 pm
That’s Funny.
Good Stuff.
David Zinger
Feb 22, 2008 at 7:43 pm
What fun
This was
Some laughed
Some objected
But overall
Really something.
sabrina
Feb 22, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Next time,
Try haiku! :-)
David Zinger
Feb 22, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Sabrina,
Thank you
I’ll do
Hai - ku
Gesundheit
David
Mark Devall
Jul 18, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Foxtrot Oscar
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