How to be a Pointy-Haired Boss

1. Answer phone always. When coworkers are in your office. When at lunch with team. During meetings.
2. Don’t share the objective of a project.
3. Treat your workers as inferior people.
4. Call your direct report(s) into your office and then make them wait for hour while you surf the internet.
5. Schedule one-on-ones but don't keep them. Ideally just keep postponing them indefinitely.
6. Micromanage.
7. Check with me in everything…
8. tweak everything 10 times for zero real value.
9. Be a bottleneck.
10. Talk first in meetings when brainstorming since your ideas are always the best.
11. Have the world circle around you….
12. Wasting 10 teammember hours to save yourself 2 minutes is a wise trade.
13. Don’t actually do anything just take credit if anyone does something.
14. Leave poor performing personnel in place for as long as you can.
15. Your ideas are the right ones… to hell with experts with 20 years experience (caveat this).
16. Manage for looking good not being good.