BAD BOSSES

Bad bosses are great motivators

Sound a little strange?

Well, once our boss earned our bad wrath, we tend to see him only with that in our mind.

Let us take the nature of our boss positively. In fact, he/she is teaching us a lot Only we are not seeing in that angle.

We can learn a lot from bad bosses and develop our skills.

If you are working for a "bad boss" then instead of being demotivated see it as a huge learning curve. I have learned the following:

1. What demotivates people.
2. How to not value people.
3. How not to communicate.
4. How not to deal with a problem.
5. How the behaviour of your boss affects your motivation.
6. How to remove clarity from people's work
7. How to ruin work/life balance.
8. How changing priorities on a daily, weekly basis causes confusion.

Now that is great learning. What I did was take time to review how he did it, and how I felt. I then promised myself that when I had the chance to lead I would NEVER do the same things.
You can survive a bad boss in the short term, by using them as a living learning example.
We certainly can learn from negative models as well as positive modelsChoice is yours.

-A.Shanmugasundaram