Sunday, December 9, 2012

GOOD BOSS BAD BOSS: IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU

GOOD BOSS BAD BOSS
How to be the Best… and Learn from the Worst
ROBERT I SUTTON, PhD
 


SECTION III
THE IPSHOT
 
CHAPTER 9: IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU

Bosses who persistently promote performance and humanity devote considerable energy to reading and responding to followers’ feelings and actions, and those of other key players like supervisors, peers, and customers.  Developing and sustaining self-awareness ought to be at the top of the list for every boss.  Every boss is prone to bouts of cluelessness and forgetting how closely followers track every little thing they do.
As a leader, people are looking at you in a way that you could not have imagined in other roles.  The two acids tests for great bosses:
i.          whether people want to work for the boss and would enthusiastically choose to do so again
ii.         best bosses are hypersensitive to how others feel about them and the work their people do.


 


THE END


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