He was called a weak manager of the Pentagon's vast and wily bureaucracy.
In both instances, the missteps of the candidates' staffs have been used to suggest that the candidate is a weak manager or not quite ready to be president.
Mr. Lindsey still has the president's ear but is viewed by people inside and outside the administration as disorganized and a weak manager.
Obviously, Best Buy had high regard for Mr. Healy's management expertise -- so it sent him to Philadelphia to learn why he was a weak manager.
Taniguchi has been a weak manager and advocate, particularly with respect to confronting Japan's own safety practices, and he is a particular disappointment to the United States for his unloved-step-child treatment of the Office of Nuclear Security.
A weak manager further weakened by age — the Vatican said for the first time on Tuesday that the pope had a pacemaker — Benedict apparently no longer felt equal to the task of governing an institution that had lacked a strong leader for over a decade, ever since John Paul II began a slow descent into Parkinson's disease.
Benedict was seen as a weak manager, and his papacy was troubled by debilitating scandals, most recently one in which his butler was convicted by a Vatican court in October of aggravated theft after he admitted stealing confidential documents, many of which wound up in a tell-all book that showed behind-the-scenes Vatican intrigue.
But Benedict was seen as a weak manager, and his papacy was troubled by debilitating scandals, most recently when his butler was convicted by a Vatican court in October of aggravated theft after he admitted stealing confidential documents, many of which wound up in a tell-all book that showed behind-the-scenes Vatican intrigue.
However, it seems that this weak manager role is not based solely on the relationship between managers and practicing physicians, but is also reinforced by how the CEOs perceive their own manager role, as well as that of other CEOs or subordinate managers.
"Strong managers will put a stop to it, but weaker managers don't really know how to handle it properly.
