First there was Dilbert. The Pointy-Haired Boss and Catbert brought bad managers out of the closet, and the characters resonated with millions. Most of us are pretty sure that we personally worked with the individuals upon whom those characters were based.
Since there’s clearly so much material to be mined, a whole sub-genre of business books on how to deal with bad managers has emerged. The best among them can be quite helpful in providing a toolkit for surviving a reporting relationship to someone with a specific incompetence profile. And these books are Continue reading ‘Oops, That’s Me!’
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