Bad bosses, Bullies, Dilbert and the Peter Principle

Stephen Liddell

I don’t know about you but during my 20 years working in a variety of office based environments, the one thing that struck me almost since the first day was that by and large, the majority of managers are to a certain extent unsuitable.

In my time so far I have had 11 managers and it is far to say that aside from one or two who have been amazing, others who have been good, most of them have been useless, incompetent, disorganised, bullying, vindictive, jealous or otherwise ineffective.  I say this as someone who has also been a manager myself.

Bad Bosses Which type of bad boss do you have?

It seems to me that very rarely are the correct decisions taken in the management of staff at work or in the promotions of people into more senior roles.  Time after time I saw people who no matter whether good or…

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