EMPTY SUITS

It is easy to smuggle in everyday jobs and to work with no business value add:

• just forward requests and questions toward somebody else and ask for deliveries in precise deadlines, 
• always place many bosses in cc and in escalation communication;
• frequently remind after deadlines are missed, slightly escalate;
• claim other answers and solutions as yours, delete forwarding notes and place yourself as original author;
• participate in meeting and don’t talk too much because others might directly see lack of competence;
• always be sociable and don’t miss coffees;
• dig new ideas in conversation on how to solve problems and communicate this to bosses as yours;

Such persons do not add any new value but purely think on self promotion and use others and organization gaps to find paths for their sustainable cash flow. There is a nice term for them called EMPTY SUITS. It is also remarkable how empty suits manage to stay on surface and even to be promoted. While hard workers are working others are working on personal promotion and establishment of social network.

Is there any connection of such sometimes common behavior with Business Intelligence? Business Intelligence area is very fragile and has enough problems without empty suits. They can cause additional problems with their lack of knowledge, for example they can direct knowledge they’ve heard in wrong direction because information they’ve heard was not complete. They can push information about data cleaning toward wrong processes with wrong methodology. In this manner they are doing problems instead to do nothing for which they are experts.

To prevent more damage than necessary, dear bosses don’t delegate somebody who is not expert to contribute in business intelligence solutions and don’t fill empty cell in project if you do not have adequate expert.

Business Intelligence area is fragile enough without actors.

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