These people will give you (the business owner) an immense satisfaction to your vanity! They will make you ecstatic, they will make you feel elated. At the same time, they will also make your business unstable! Bankrupt and out of business! The 10 most dangerous types of people in business management are as follows:
1. Two-faced, sycophantic, pretending to understand when they don't. They often provide the boss with incorrect opinions and information, leading to frequent decision-making errors.
2. Assigning their own relatives or friends within the company for personal gain. This leads to complex interpersonal relationships within the company. Mistakes cannot be dealt with appropriately. Company discipline and policies cannot be enforced or implemented. Once disciplined, they retaliate against the enforcer.
3. Managing people they do not understand. Having someone who doesn't understand sales manage the sales department is akin to having a pig teach a cat how to catch mice — the results are predictable.
4. Making arbitrary decisions and then changing them just as arbitrarily. Changing orders multiple times in a day will leave subordinates confused. It will also add chaos to the company's operations.
5. Breaking trust and lacking integrity. Making promises lightly but failing to keep them makes everyone who deals with you doubt your word. This is absolutely the number one taboo in modern business warfare.
6. Deceiving superiors and subordinates while committing wrongful acts. Reporting only good news to superiors and hiding bad news prevents the boss from getting accurate market information. This can lead to missed opportunities and eventual bankruptcy. To subordinates, they report only bad news and hide good news, leading to low morale and a scattered team that collapses without needing competition.
7. Seemingly clever and gentle to the boss on the surface, but secretly taking huge kickbacks. Everyone knows procurement is a "fat post," but it's even worse when the boss is brainwashed by the procurement department. Buying expensive junk without realizing it leads to high product prices, lack of market competitiveness, and eventually losing market share to competitors.
8. Forming cliques and causing internal consumption within the company. They gather their "close allies" and suppress new entrants, harming the company. New hires fear them greatly. They may act outrageously under the influence of alcohol, expressing dissatisfaction they normally wouldn't dare to say. These toxic tumors must be removed, or the company will quickly become beyond saving.
9. Knowing everything about everything, being a jack-of-all-trades. The boss can find answers to any question from this person, but many of the answers are wrong. This gives the boss a false impression that this person is knowledgeable and a rare talent. However, the tasks assigned by the boss are always poorly executed.
10. Taking credit and profits for themselves, being the good guy while letting others be the bad guy. Grabbing all the glory for themselves and pushing difficult or unpopular tasks onto others. When something goes wrong, they find a scapegoat. They lack courage and responsibility, resorting to deceitful tactics. They let others take the blame when trouble arises!
After reading this article, business owners should check if there are such people around them. If not, consider yourself fortunate. If so, you need to be extra cautious. These are the modern-day "He Shen" (a notorious corrupt official in Chinese history), and almost every company has such individuals. Their words are what the boss loves to hear, satisfying the boss's vanity with the most enchanting music. If you have someone with all ten of these traits around you, "Congratulations, you've hit the jackpot!" Their existence is like a time bomb hidden within the company, with enormous explosive power. Often, these people are close to the boss, influencing his thoughts and making him make wrong decisions. This causes the company ship to face perilous situations during its journey forward, with whirlpools and hidden tides constantly threatening it, or even heading in the wrong direction and crashing into hidden reefs.
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