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I agree with Superman. I have been blessed with several bosses who trusted people to know their jobs and get the work (at whatever level) done.
The greatest failures I saw in bosses occurred when they did not give their workers credit for knowing how to do their jobs. I had to laugh at a couple of occaisions in my career with the Dairy. Twice, upper management brought in consultants, to look at the way we did things and re-invent us. Basically, what the consultants did was what upper management should have been doing: They talked to the production, distribution and sales and office people and made recommendations along the lines of what the people who were doing the jobs suggested!
Les