Management by Champignon
Employees are left in the dark; occasionally throwing manure on them – and as soon as somebody shows him/herself the person is dismissed.
Management by Crocodile
To be up to the neck in the mud – but brag.
Management by Helicopter
To hover above everything, land from time to time and cause quite a stir – and vanish into thin air.
Management by Herodes
Searching intensively for the right successor – and fire him/her.
Management by Ping-Pong
Processing with everything by passing it from one department to another and back again – so that with the time they are solved automatically.
Management by Robinson
All are waiting for Friday
(Translated from SOZIALWIRTSCHAFT Aktuell 12/2002. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft)