Management Bug: Lack of Management Support

Eduardo Espinheira
2 min readMar 25, 2020

A MngtBug is a problem, cause or impact in a human manager’s decision which produces an incorrect or unexpected result.
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Description

This week’s “Lack of Management Support” is one of the most common problems.

By definition, management is a group of people responsible for controlling and organizing a company.
(Extracted and adapted from https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/management)
On the other hand, support is: to agree with and give encouragement to someone or something because you want him, her, or it to succeed.
(Extracted and adapted from https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/support)

When in your company, you detect these signs:
- Employees start to leave.
- Morale starts to drop.
- Performances stagnate.

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Eduardo Espinheira

Eduardo Espinheira is a Consultant, Facilitator, Manager, Public Speaker, Creator of the Management Bugs&Fixes and the Machiavellian PM Stories