Here Are the Best Lessons I Learned from My Three Favorite Bosses
(And one from my least favorite)
I’ve been working for large companies pretty consistently since before I turned 18. The bulk of that time (20+ years) has been in retail, and most of that was for a single company. Even though I’ve had fewer jobs over the last two decades than perhaps most workers, I’ve seen my fair share of leadership changes.
Most people don’t have any say in who their boss is going to be, so when you get the news that you’ll be reporting to someone else it can be stressful. It usually was for me, and it only got more stressful as I stepped up each rung of the retail leadership ladder.
Every time I found out I was getting a new boss (early on this would have been a Store Manager change and later, once I was the Store Manager, it would be a change in district leadership), there was at least a brief period of uncertainty and worry.
And every time I was pleasantly surprised to learn I had nothing to worry about.
Until the last one. The last one was a doozy.
I always made an effort to learn as much as I could from my leaders, and thankfully they had plenty of lessons to teach me. What follows are the best lessons I learned from my three favorite bosses (as well as one I learned from my least…
