Treat Your Employees Like Dogs

At the cost of forever blowing any reputation I might have as a boss, let me point to this post on Amazon daily, about 10 rules on dealing with dogs. (After each rule the writer explains and amplifies.) Naturally, I thought of employees:

1. A dog is a dog
2. All dogs think in terms of packs
3. Dogs don't understand English
4. Dogs are not spiteful
5. What makes some dogs aggressive
6. Body language is a dogs primary mode of communication
   
7. You can teach an old dog new tricks
8. Bad behaviors may be natural, but they don't have to be normal
9. What is the right way to discipline a dog
10. Do dogs sense the world differently than humans

Her bottom line is essentially: put yourself in the dog's paws and look at the world through the dog's eyes in order to know how to deal with it. Good advice for people, too. Advice usually ignored by the politicians and the public when they deal with their employees--the bureaucrats, who seem to be less than dogs.