Just want to find out your experiences with bad or incompetent bosses.
I once had a boss who insisted that no one should have any training! He thought the best way of judging performance was how people performed without training, as that would show how good a person was. So even though the company had training courses for various things, he never allowed us onto any of them...especially where it mattered, eg product training. So no one in the team did any training, and our work suffered. But strangely, he was ok with work suffering, so long as no one got trained. If you asked for training, he marked you down on the appraisal!
I think it's just strange that people are made managers on the basis of skills that have nothing to do with people management (eg someone is a great software programmer, so they make him a leader of a team of 10 programmers). On a related note, here is a must-read article: 'why your boss is programmed to be a dictator' (www.changethis.com)
I once had a boss who insisted that no one should have any training! He thought the best way of judging performance was how people performed without training, as that would show how good a person was. So even though the company had training courses for various things, he never allowed us onto any of them...especially where it mattered, eg product training. So no one in the team did any training, and our work suffered. But strangely, he was ok with work suffering, so long as no one got trained. If you asked for training, he marked you down on the appraisal!
I think it's just strange that people are made managers on the basis of skills that have nothing to do with people management (eg someone is a great software programmer, so they make him a leader of a team of 10 programmers). On a related note, here is a must-read article: 'why your boss is programmed to be a dictator' (www.changethis.com)