The Gift

Goshen

Irish people have a gift (underused) for interacting effectively with people. This makes us brilliant managers, team members, colleagues in general.

Is this a skill which we possess in excess of others?

Wacker The Attacker

Goshen wrote: »

Irish people have a gift (underused) for interacting effectively with people. This makes us brilliant managers, team members, colleagues in general.

Is this a skill which we possess in excess of others?

Do you have any idea how wrong that statement is?

Goshen

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

Do you have any idea how wrong that statement is?

None whatsoever. Enlighten me.

Your Superior

I'd say no, in general. However the disproportionately large number of Irish CEOs worldwide may say otherwise, though the airline industry seems to be the primary sector where this happens.

Macavity.

What are you on about?

Duff

This about Phil Heath, no?

Wacker The Attacker

Goshen wrote: »

None whatsoever. Enlighten me.

I've a list as long as your arm of absolutely appalling managers that were Irish. No better or worse than any other nationality.

jimgoose

I think Brendan Behan got in one when he said the Irish are a very popular race… with themselves. :pac:

Arsemageddon

Goshen wrote: »

Irish people have a gift (underused) for interacting effectively with people. This makes us brilliant managers...

Clearly you don't remember Steven Staunton's reign as Ireland's gaffer.

Mint Aero

Just don't put me working with a German in general and I'm happy.

Sleepy

Goshen wrote: »

Irish people have a gift (underused) for interacting effectively with people.

I don't. Where do I give my passport back? And have you any recommendations as to where would be best to ask for a new citizenship?

WesternZulu

Goshen wrote: »

Irish people have a gift (underused) for interacting effectively with people.

Sure we can't even get on with each other!
Take a look up at Northern Ireland if you doubt me.

ToddyDoody

The ability to talk your way into, out of and around things and people is great... as long as it's backed up by a level of competence that can match. Otherwise, you have the archetypal bull****ter.

Kiwi in IE

Goshen wrote: »

Irish people have a gift (underused) for interacting effectively with people. This makes us brilliant managers, team members, colleagues in general.

Is this a skill which we possess in excess of others?

What evidence do you have to back up this assertion?

Some Irish people have those skills and some do not. Pretty much the same as any other Nationality. To say that an entire nation of people possess such skills in excess of every other nation is quite frankly a ridiculous assertion!

Some Irish people possess the above skills, some are witty, clever and creative, some are moronic eejits. Same as any other country.

cloud493

Eh, you guys have the superficial ability to get on with each other, I don't know about in business and what not.

Mr_Muffin

Irish people have no such gift they just like to think they do.

Massimo Cassagrande

I thought this was gonna be about auld lads who can cure warts.

cajonlardo

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

Irish people have no such gift they just like to think they do.

Are you at all aware of the record of the Irish U.N missions?

Would you not consider this record as effective interaction?

I would.

Electric Sheep

ToddyDoody wrote: »

The ability to talk your way into, out of and around things and people is great... as long as it's backed up by a level of competence that can match. Otherwise, you have the archetypal bull****ter.

And this is precisely what I have found almost endemic in Irish workplaces.

Dangerous Man

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS? WHAT IS THIS?

Tarzana2

jimgoose wrote: »

I think Brendan Behan got in one when he said the Irish are a very popular race… with themselves. :pac:

Yeah, as a nation we looooove the smell of our collective farts. :pac:

Aongus Von Bismarck

The idea that the Irish have some sort of inate ability to lead and manage based on their ability to soft-talk and palaver is simply preposterous.

We have a large back and middle office function based in Dublin. The head of the middle office department over there is a great man for trying to plámás me.

"How do you think the Tribesmen will do in the hurling this year, Aongus?", and other such banalities. I'm perfectly willing to engage in such chatter in a social context, but when I'm in work I expect him to have managed his team so we have the information we want 5 minutes before we need it. As I had to remind the director of the Irish department only last week.

That old 'ah shure I'm doing the feckin' finest' type' stuff might work if selling a gelding to a horse trainer in England. It doesn't cut the mustard when operating in time-sensitive financial markets.

Graduates of the Smurfit Business School most of them. It shows.

Massimo Cassagrande

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

The idea that the Irish have some sort of inate ability to lead and manage based on their ability to soft-talk and palaver is simply preposterous.

We have a large back and middle office function based in Dublin. The head of the middle office department over there is a great man for trying to plámás me.

"How do you think the Tribesmen will do in the hurling this year, Aongus?", and other such banalities. I'm perfectly willing to engage in such chatter in a social context, but when I'm in work I expect him to have managed his team so we have the information we want 5 minutes before we need it. As I had to remind the director of the Irish department only last week.

That old 'ah shure I'm doing the feckin' finest' type' stuff might work if selling a gelding to a horse trainer in England. It doesn't cut the mustard when operating in time-sensitive financial markets.

Graduates of the Smurfit Business School most of them. It shows.

Jasus. N.Dublin must have gone all serious in the last few months. You're in N Dublin Aehongous, right?