Wagner's MBA Law of Good Hiring versus Good Supervising

Wagner's MBA Law of Good Hiring versus Good Supervising: You can train a chimpanzee to hire people by matching the symbols of the job position with the resumes, but it takes the high order skills of a thoughtful and diligent leader to motivate and develop those employees.

Wagner's MBA Law of Updating Facebook During Church Services

Wagner's MBA Law of Updating Facebook During Church Services: Avoid posting or liking on Facebook during church unless you are actually at church; else your friends at church will see the time of your post or be cruising the FB Newsfeed themselves and start looking for you at church. Better yet, turn your phone off during church.

Wagner's MBA Laws of Dairy Farming (and management)

Wagner's MBA Laws of Dairy Farming (and management): 1. Feed, milk, and monitor the cows, and shovel concomitant manure; 2. If you are short on milk, you will be long on manure; 3. If you are long on milk, you will be even longer on manure; 4. Let "bulls" spread "ideas" through the opened gates; 5. Expect milk and inspect milk; 6. A dairy farm that doesn't produce milk is just a manure factory; 7. Don't blame the cows!

Wagner's MBA Law of Helping Manipulators

Wagner's MBA Law of Helping Manipulators: Manipulative people almost always want cash or control, no matter how complex their stories become, because these can feed their addictions; rarely do they want a sandwich or a sympathetic ear.

Wagner's MBA Laws of "Tending Burn Pile"

Wagner's MBA Laws of "Tending Burn Pile:" For you "City Folk" out there, you tend burn pile by: 1. DO NOT LET THE FIRE GET OUT OF CONTROL; 2. DO NOT FALL INTO THE FIRE -- remember that the fire does not know the difference between you and wood / leaves; 3. Move the un-burnt material toward the center of the fire, so it all burns up; 4. Only start a fire on official burn days; 5. Don't be seen throwing old couches and stuff that generates black smoke into the fire; 6. When the fire gets about 18 inches of flame on the top, you can throw green wood and leaves on it and the fire will burn it almost as well as dry wood; 7. When tending burn pile in the pouring rain, don't forget to turn yourself to dry the other side; 8. Pay attention to what you are doing and don't day-dream!

Wagner's MBA Law of the Future

Wagner's MBA Law of the Future: Think: Now. The Present keeps The Past from bumping into and even occluding The Future.

Wagner's MBA Law of Organizational Problem Responsibility

Wagner's MBA Law of Organizational Problem Responsibility: All problems are management problems (or opportunities). Managers who blame their staff for long term problems are insufficiently trained for their current positions... and being silly (in my opinion). Any problem that lasts for more than a few weeks is by definition a problem that should be addressed by organizational management. I personally and hereby scold you managers who assign blame to your staff for problems/issues/challenges for which you and you alone should be the one responsible. Shame on you. OK, that sounds a little heavy, but it is time to stop shirking your responsibility.