Imagine the absolute worst.
Your boss summons you to his office. Once you're inside, he races behind you to slam the door shut. Then he fires a chair across the room in your direction.
"You son of a bitch!" he screams at you. "Don't you know who you work for?"
"Yes, I do," you manage to say.
"I didn't ask you to talk. Shut your mouth!"
And when you stay quiet, only to have still more abuse and derision heaped on you, the boss begins knocking his fist on an imaginary door.
"Well, hello," he says mockingly. "Is anybody there?"
Fiction? I'm afraid not. It's a real scene from many companies .
This kind of Boss sucked the very life and soul out of companies and people. He stole dignity, purpose, and sense out of organizations and replaced those ideals with fear and intimidation.
Oh, sure, he was none too fond of me, either.
The psychopathic boss doesn't understand that the job of leadership is to fully utilize human potential, to create organizations in which people can grow and learn while still achieving a common objective, to nurture the human spirit. This leader is devoted to self and self alone. Business history is populated by such creatures, from Henry Ford and Walt Disney to Harold Geneen and Andy Fastow.
I've known plenty of colleagues who have had the misfortune of reporting to dysfunctional bosses. But I've also been not so lucky enough to come too close to one --
Ever had the same experience .... How did you deal with it ?
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