I could have just found the few managers (probably not the boss) who drive the whole SHOAL, HERD, PACK or whatever word you choose and worked only with these people to change mind-sets and performance of the whole group. Maybe I have been wasting my time and I should have been looking at the group not the individuals. Yet I have spent a lot of my career trying to get managers to think about their individual performance, thinking that if everyone works effectively then the culture of the group will develop positively. Just like a SEETHING of eels or a PARLIAMENT of owls, once you get managers together, the identity, the intelligence and the culture of their organisation is clearly visible. ![]() A PARADE of managers (all lipstick and shiny shoes without any real content to back it up), a MAUL of managers (tight packed, cohesive and full of aggression), a RACE of managers (plenty of speed but not much attention to direction) and a LIBRARY of managers (erudite, thoughtful, struggling for funding and going nowhere). Here are a few examples from experience to get you started.
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