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January 29, 2010

managee

Last weekend, I went grocery shopping with a friend who happens to be a middle-manager at Microsoft. It didn't take long for me to start thinking of the outing as a microcosm of my professional life. First, she yanked me around the store willy-nilly, making me visit the same aisles, two, three times instead of simply formulating and following a plan. Then she forgot the one item we went there especially for. I reminded her. "Oh. Right," she said, yanking me to the bakery aisle for a fourth go-round.

The metaphoria in which I was drowning reached its apex in the hot-dog aisle. "We need to get these," she said. I grabbed the very package she was tapping with her extended index finger. "Not those!" she scoffed. "They have to be all-beef. Duh!"

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