Manager Animals and How to Spot Them

Working at a good organization is like a walk in a park, except when the park is crawling with all kinds of dangerous animals out to get you. Here's a list of managers as animals and their characteristics to help you spot them in their habitats before you become the next prey:

Working on Latest Fire: WoLF

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Really High-value New Opportunity: RHiNO

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Highest Paid Person’s Opinion: HiPPO

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Zero Evidence, but Really Arrogant: ZEbRA

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Seagull Manager

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Plans Unending Feature Factory Initiatives: PUFFIn

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Guesstimating Overly Optimistic Scheduling Estimates: GOOSE

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Cognitive Bias Related Assertions: CoBRA

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Promotes Unusually Meaningless Assumptions: PUMA

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Yet Another KPI: YAK

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