Define: "Sitting on my head" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"Tell them you are disconnecting from the bridge call to check the physical hardware, then just work in silence."
Close supervision or persistent follow-up by a manager to ensure task completion.
What does "Sitting on my head" actually mean?
"An account manager micromanaging your every keystroke and asking for ETA updates every five minutes during a P1 outage."
"I will be sitting on the vendor's head to ensure the hardware arrives by Q3."
"I can't troubleshoot the routing loop with the incident manager sitting on my head asking for a root cause analysisRoot Cause AnalysisA 10-page document written to politely explain that an intern unplugged the core router to use a vacuum cleaner.."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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