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If you are lucky enough to land with a secure, mature manager, you will have many opportunities to excel at your work. Confident managers excel at training, advancing, and promoting their subordinates into better positions. They advise, challenge, critique, encourage, and correct your work and presentations in a productive, positive manner. They look for opportunities for their subordinates.

If you are unlucky and land on one of the insecure manager teams, you will go nowhere. Expect no directions, no clarifications, and no assistance with projects and tasks assigned to you. Expect no contact from these managers until your yearly review. Then, expect the worst possible annual review, where you will be blamed for all of this manager's shortcomings. You can write a rebuttal to the BS in your review, but that rebuttal will never get looked at. You are left with a tarnished reputation, no raise, and a lousy bonus, but -- gosh -- at that moment, your manager sure looks happy!

Quit reorganizing your department and reporting structures. You have effectively killed all communications on all your projects.

How can you expect projects to complete on time, at budget or under, if every nine months or less you reorganize your departments so that half the project players get moved off the projects, being replaced by newbies that know nothing and leaving you with broken communication lines in every critical direction for the project? This is usually done more than once on any given project. Then, because of delays, those projects get dropped, effectively throwing away all the good work done by too many disconnected folk.