hehehe

[rm]

I am coding this Financial Times article about how "scariness" is "in" again in the work place. It even provides four tips from a Professor Roderick Kramer on how to boost your "S-factor" (this is about where I started giggling):

1. Intimidate people by invading their personal space.
2. Get angry, even if you really aren't.
3. Keep people guessing by acting sullen and silent. (and this was where I decided I _had_ to share this with you all)
4. Know the facts, and even if you don't, pretend to.

According to the article, "Professor Kramer argues that the good intimidating leader may sometimes bully people, but it must be to achieve an end, rather than to simply enjoy the humiliation of the person at the wrong end of it."


I, meanwhile, am a big nerd who cannot. stop. laughing.

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

Maybe everyone is waiting for Book 7 -- since we won't really know what Snape was trying to do until then, or where Dumbledore falls both in terms of effectiveness or insanity.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

I think in terms of "teaching Harry" or "managing Harry", we've got everything we need. With Dumbledore gone, the odds of Harry being under Snape's management again seem pretty unlikely.

[rm.livejournal.com]

True enough, but the success of anyone's techniques in terms of the 40,000ft view still utterly remains to be seen.