seagull manager
seagull manager · seagull managers
A manager whose presence is rare and usually motivated by problemsA manager whose presence is rare and usually motivated by problems
Meaning
1 senses(idiomatic, slang)A manager whose presence is rare and usually motivated by problems
Origin
The term became popular through a joke in Ken Blanchard's 1985 book Leadership and the OneThe term became popular through a joke in Ken Blanchard's 1985 book Leadership and the One Minute Manager: "Seagull managers fly in, make a lot of noise, dump on everyone, then fly out."
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Forms
plural: seagull managers| Singular | seagull manager |
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Word family
1 related wordsRelatedseagull approach
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.