6 Strategies That Work When Dealing With an Incompetent Boss
Bad management can make even the best job seem like drudgery
San Francisco writer Tom McNichol referred to Steve Jobs in The Atlantic as “a world-class asshole.”
McNichol went on to write:
“Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of Jobs offers a revealing look at what the author has called “good Steve” and “bad Steve…
Bad Steve was petulant, rude, spiteful, and controlling, a man who thought nothing of publicly humiliating employees, hogging the credit for work he hadn’t done, throwing tantrums when he didn’t get his way…
“Jobs was not the world’s greatest manager,” Walter Isaacson said in an interview with 60 Minutes. “In fact, he could have been one of the world’s worst managers.”
What about Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg?
Harvard expert Bill George writes in CNBC Make It:
“Zuckerberg is a rationalizer, the type of boss who isn’t willing to acknowledge or learn from their mistakes. Instead, they rationalize missteps by placing that blame on others…
Zuckerberg has become a loner who avoids forming close relationships and pushes others away, George says. Those bosses often don’t accept help, advice or…
