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I’M THE BOSS!
Don’t Depend on Your Formal Authority
8:31 a.m. Kim Young, Project Emerge assistant, enters Jason’s
offi ce waving the note Jason left on his desk.
“What’s this?” Kim asks.
“Last Tuesday,” Jason says, “I asked Jay, Sumantra, Kathy, and
Barry for progress reports by end of day yesterday. I copied you
and asked you to combine them into one fi le for me.”
“Now I remember,” he says. “Nobody sent anything.”
“Did anybody say they’d be late?”
“No.” Seeing the look on Jason’s face, he adds, “Frank was
pretty relaxed.” Frank Rigby was Jason’s predecessor. “He didn’t
believe in lots of reports or meetings or bureaucracy.”
“Apparently not.” Jason takes a deep breath and fi ghts back
the anger he can feel building inside himself. ...