Managers who orient toward power rather than toward mission.
Management folklore. Sunflowers turn to face the sun, and the reporting consequence is watermelon status: everyone reflects the boss's preferred view back at them.
In practice
- A director mentions in passing that she favours the second option, and all four workstream papers recommend the second option.
- A management team where every report reflects the chief executive's stated preference has no information about anything except that preference.
- Standing
- The Japanese term sontaku names the same behaviour from the subordinate's side, where no instruction is ever given.
- Subject
- Organizations & Bureaucracy
- Essay
- The folklore of office life