进入21世纪,似乎我们工作和生活的方方面面都在国际化、全球化。新技术、新理念不断涌入,想要做一个管理者也显得不那么容易了。经理们需要不断接受新兴的技术和理念,否则就有可能会成为不太受欢迎的seagull manager了。
Seagull Manager is a
term first dating back to an 1988 Marketing article by Michael Madison,
used to describe a management style of interacting with employees only
when a problem arises, making hasty decisions about things they have
little understanding of, then leaving others to deal with the mess they
leave behind.
Seagull Manager(海鸥经理)这一说法的出现始于1988年迈克尔?麦迪逊所写的一篇有关市场营销的文章,指那种出现问题了才跟员工沟通的管理模式,管理者对于自己不太了解的事务匆忙做出决策,然后把烂摊子留给其他人来处理。
The term became more popular through a
joke in Ken Blanchard's 1999 book Leadership and the One Minute Manager:
"Seagull managers fly in, make a lot of noise, dump on everyone, then
fly out."
这个说法在1999年因为肯?布兰查德的一本书《领导与一分钟经理》中的形象描述而更加走红,书里是这样写的:“海鸥经理们飞进来,制造了好多噪音,把每个人给说一遍,然后又飞走了。”