After having dealt during some decades with the most different kind of people, my simple structured mind came out, I found out some time ago, with only a few labels, which it quickly attaches to the people in front of me. Once this is done, I automatically switch into a specific behavioral pattern that would help me, in most of the cases, to achieve my goals.
This is particularly true in my business activities, in which I have to deal mainly with the specimen called manager.
"Aha," my mind might say, "a policeman. Why is he leading the sales department? Why do they not promote him as delivery entrance guard?" Or it asks: "I wonder how this number crunching monkey became the public relation manager here."
This is exactly the problem with the organizations. They really seem to have good people, but they put them in the wrong places. The entrepreneur type is working in the archive. The down to earth businessman is cleaning the toilets. And so on. You could so easily improve organizations by making only some personnel swaps. The only problem group that would always remain, even after a deep position optimization, are the managers of the politician type. People that go around talking, commenting and trying to become popular or noticed for the next promotion. They do not work, unless it is to improve their golf handicaps. They belong only to one place, really: To the top of the pyramid. But this is a small spot and there are too many of them.
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