[Vnbiz] Leadership: Practice vs Principles - Bad Bosses get Promoted...?

[Tran Dinh Hoanh]

Dear Andi,

Thanks for the article, brother.  That is nothing new.  American management
practices have been going down hill for the last 3 decades or so, that is
why the US has many bosses who do not understand what leadership is and that
is why American competitiveness in the world market has been sliding
steadily.

The statistics would be different for, say, Japan, whose competitiveness has
been increased constantly for the last 50 years.  Maybe China would have
some interesting statistics also.

We should learn bad practices to avoid them.

Have a great day!

Hoanh


On 8/3/07, AD Marshall <admarshall at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Bad bosses get promoted, not punished?
> Fri Aug 3, 2007 10:57AM EDT
> By Rachel Breitman
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> NEW YORK (Reuters) - How do people get ahead in the workplace? One way
> seems to be by making their subordinates miserable, according to a study
> released Friday.
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> In the study to be presented at a conference on management this weekend,
> almost two-thirds of the 240 participants in an online survey said the local
> workplace tyrant was either never censured or was promoted for domineering
> ways.
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> "The fact that 64.2 percent of the respondents indicated that either
> nothing at all or something positive happened to the bad leader is rather
> remarkable -- remarkably disturbing," wrote the study's authors, Anthony Don
> Erickson, Ben Shaw and Zha Agabe of Bond University in Australia.
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> Despite their success in the office, spiteful supervisors can cause
> serious malaise for their subordinates, the study suggested, citing
> nightmares, insomnia, depression and exhaustion as symptoms of serving a
> brutal boss.
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> The authors advocated immediate intervention by industry chiefs to stop
> fledgling office authoritarians from rising up the ranks.
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> "As with any sort of cancer, the best alternative to prevention is early
> detection," they wrote.
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> They faulted senior managers for not recognizing the signs of workplace
> strife wrought by bad bosses. "The leaders above them who did nothing, who
> rewarded and promoted bad leaders ... represent an additional problem."
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> The study will be presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of
> Management, a research and teaching organization with nearly 17,000 members,
> from Sunday to Wednesday in Philadelphia.
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> (c) Reuters 2007. All rights reserved.
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> Tran Dinh Hoanh, Esq., LLB, JD
> Washington DC
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