Supervisor's Survival Kit: Your First Step into Management, Ninth Edition

MR. BIG

As Mr. Big, you occupy the number one power role. You consider yourself a professional manager and a strong leader. Your superiors recognize you as ambitious, efficient, and a good listener. You are a stabilizer (as opposed to a scrambler^[1]) in that you intend to stay with your present organization and take a straight line to the top. You measure your people on the basis of productivity, not personality; because you are good at setting priorities and managing your own time, you expect the same efficiency from others; you maintain a clear and firm discipline line. You sense you are an excellent model for the supervisors who report to you. ...