Define: "Seagull Management" in Business
Catastrophic fiscal burn
"Acknowledge their presence, say 'Understood', and immediately discard their advice once they disconnect."
A management style where an executive interacts with a project only to criticize it before departing.
What does "Seagull Management" actually mean?
"The VP flying into your troubleshooting bridge, yelling about SLAs, dropping a terrible idea, and immediately leaving the call."
"This project requires consistent leadership, not seagull management."
"We were an hour into fixing the routing loop before we got hit by seagull management."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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