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5 ways to fix a bad boss

Posted on by Richard Aaron Wright in Blotter

Everyone has a story about a bad boss ruining a good company. If you want to know how to fix a bad boss – the best advice is to let the situation fix itself. Incompetence, aggression and not getting along nearly always ends with a bad boss departing and new rules put in place to prevent it from happening again. We all want Transformational Leadership and are amazed when jerks have success leading companies. But exceptions to the rules will always be the excuse for bad behavior and incompetence.

1. Fix a bad boss the way of a bad President

Depending on whom you ask, many of our past Presidents of the United States (POTUS) were bad bosses. Many believe Donald Trump to be...

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In 2014, Americans completed a staggering 10.8 billion public transportation trips. Millions of people in larger metropolitan areas of the U.S. depend on public transportation to run errands, get to work, and visit friends. With the continually rising costs of car ownership, fluctuating gas prices, and growing traffic problems nationally, these figures will rise. North Carolina is no different. North Carolina combine for millions of daily public transit riders on buses and rail systems. Park your car and ride the rail downtown Charlotte. Ready to see the Panthers trounce the Rams this week? Ride the Charlotte bus to the stadiumtadium. Especially during community events like football and baseball games or concerts, public transportation often makes more sense than sitting in traffic on the interstate. Unfortunately, not every bus ride, taxi ride, or light rail trip gets you to your intended destination on time. We’ve all experienced the frustration of feeling held hostage by public transit. Missing kickoff, the opening song, more
New paradigm: sell it, build it or get fired?

“Employees should be coding or selling. Otherwise, fire them!” So goes a new managerial dictum blustered by managers keen to pass the vitriol as some sort of clever distributive work policy to be followed by their employees. I first heard the sell it, build it or get fired quip as part of a “motivational” speech delivered by a browbeating CEO to our division, all of us looking for leadership to overcome a quarter of disappointing earnings. But while his aim was to motivate, the cheeky threat had many of us looking for new jobs the next week despite the fact he was full of hot hair. He was eventually fired when his perennial bullying and your-with-me-or-against-me style management was realized to be contrary to fundamental egalitarian leadership policies on which the company prided itself. But not before much of the company’s talent already fled elsewhere. It’s the or get fired part that misses the mark. It hints at a style more

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