The Essential Guide for Bosses
How to feel important at work:
1) Say one thing in pre-alignment meetings and have the complete reverse opinion OR go back to having no opinion in succeeding meetings. This demonstrates that you are open-minded and very willing to listen to others' inputs. Also that you have the power to keep changing things from day-to-day. After all, why let things move? This way, you can call crisis meetings and "step in".
2) Call your people uncollaborative when they ask for clarity on roles and responsibilities. This shows you care for your people by providing them with coaching and constructive feedback. Also demonstrates that you are the collaborative one.
3) Micro-manage each and every decision. If possible, do their job. After all, you are the boss. Why give your people any power at all? Centralize, centralize, centralize!
Alsace Day 17: Route de Vin
Finally found the wine road this morning. Had no idea it stretches for many many kilometers dotted by dozens of wine makers and vineyards inviting you to a degustation.
Might help to do a bit of research on the more famous vineyards as the number to choose from can get a bit daunting if you do it on the spot! Otherwise, hope for a bit of luck, pick a couple that looks nice and go!
Watch out for getting drunk. Even for the sampling, they pour so much into your glass and there's nowhere to spit. They also give you at least 2 glasses per type of wine you request -- their standard and premium versions. After a while though, I'm getting better at distinguishing one type from the other and picking out the more expensive bottle. This is apparently the best way to learn, by sampling the different kinds against each other.
The Route de Vin takes me back to Brussels where I catch the next day's flight back to Singapore. Compared to France, I can see why Ezer calls it SingaBore.
