If you're interested in being the best possible manager you can be, check out this article, based on a smart manager who was alienating his new team--and was totally oblivious of what he was doing:
'Jurgen," a very bright engineer, descended upon a manufacturing company after his parent company acquired it. While he had great intentions and high aspirations for dramatically increasing the operational efficiency, he was met with fierce resistance. I was asked to come in and find out why. Meeting with Jurgen, I found him to be very bright, personable and an interesting conversationalist. I liked him. However, his team didn't. They despised him. As I interviewed both his direct reports and others who worked with him, I was regaled with stories of arrogance, disrespect and intimidation. While he had big hopes of inspiring greater productivity and turning the plant around, his behavior laid the foundation for his failure.
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