Surrounded by Bad Bosses (And Lazy Employees): How to Stop Struggling, Start Succeeding, and Deal with Idiots at Work [The Surrounded by Idiots Series]

by Thomas Erikson

The boss who doesn’t have a clue what you do every day

The boss who never gets back to you as promised

The boss who expects you to be able to read his thoughts

The boss who is simply a scatterbrain and has so little structure that they can never find their papers

The boss who is a control freak and interferes in absolutely everything you do

The boss who insists on making all the decisions herself

The boss who never gives any direct orders but hopes you will get the message anyway

The boss who doesn’t care if some of the staff don’t do a proper job

The boss who is so afraid of conflict that just about anything g...

Boss is what you are. Leader is what you do.

Task-oriented individuals don’t need a lot of support to get the job done.

Since an awful lot of tasks require cooperation, a task-oriented boss can neglect to consider the opinions and attitudes of the other members of the team.

Extroverted people proceed fairly quickly from thought to action and devote less time to reflection.

The Reds, task-oriented and extroverted, are governed by a drive to deal with problems and difficult challenges.

Yellow, relationship-oriented and extroverted, is about interacting. These are the people who always have to convince everyone else to think and feel the same way they do.

Green, relationship-oriented and introverted, is about a love of stability. A lot of Green means there is little interest in changing things.

Blue, task-oriented and introverted, is about appreciating rules and regulations. They go by the book and always know the right thing to do.

All told, the dynamics within the group may suffer if the boss is too dominant. Your motivation and enthusiasm for the job can become dangerously low if the boss is too controlling.