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What Boss says is important but what s/he is trying to communicate is very important for your professional growth. At one point of in my career, I was having a boss who was having an extra polite voice and amazing personality. He was soft spoken but quite efficient in communicating what he wanted to communicate. After working for some time, I had started understanding the real meaning of his very sweet communication. Let me quote some, hope you will enjoy.
Boss Saying |
What to understand |
| I would appreciate, if this can be completed by today. | Do not leave the office without completing this task. |
| Things can be made better, You need to help your team in understanding the issue in details. | You are the stupid boss of an incompetent team. |
| We need to have enough human resources in buffer to deal with emerging capacity constraint. | Recruit new people and fire the existing incompetents. |
| Maybe, you can accompany the team to complete the work till late evening. | You are also to stay late with your team so that the work is done. |
| I see lot of you are sitting together for project meeting – is it necessary?? | Stop gossiping; eating biscuit and tea. |
| Mr. Y is a grate visionary but somehow his project is not producing the desired result. | Mr. Y can only talk and not good at work. |
| Mr. Z has learned many new things by practice only by doing practice. | Mr. Z has no formal education and work like donkey. |
| I would appreciate if you mark to me in all email having financial implication. | Nobody is going to spend a penny without my formal approval. |
| Director is supposed to practice discretionary power in the best interest of the organization. | Throw institutional process to dust bin and do what I am saying. |
| I have agreed with Mr. X that he would be moving on to explore new avenue. | Mr. X is fired. |
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