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Beware of hovering Seagull managers

Kipkoech Tanui

There is an ocean bird called seagull and a management style by its name defined by Ken Blanchard’s in his book Leadership and the One Minute Manager. The Seagull Manager, ‘flies in, poops on you and then flies away again’. It is their nature to criticise, offer no solution, because they do not understand what their jobs entail.

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