Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Managers who yell are confusing people with horses

One etymology of the word “manage” is from Latin manus, hand. The word was originally used by the French to mean to “train a horse in its paces.” Picture a trainer in a fenced ring slapping a horse on the butt to make it canter, trot or gallop.

Managers who yell are confusing people with horses.