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

[AD Marshall]

I'm glad it's being made quite clear that the leadership thread is aimed at
cataloging best practices, not normal ones.  And i laud your patience and
persistence, A Hoanh, at leading this group.

With warm wishes,
Andi

On 8/4/07, Tran Dinh Hoanh <tdhoanh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
>
>
> 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:
> >
> > [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
> >
> >
> >
> > Bad bosses get promoted, not punished?
> > Fri Aug 3, 2007 10:57AM EDT
> > By Rachel Breitman
> >
> > [Photo]
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > "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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > The authors advocated immediate intervention by industry chiefs to stop
> > fledgling office authoritarians from rising up the ranks.
> >
> > "As with any sort of cancer, the best alternative to prevention is early
> > detection," they wrote.
> >
> > 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."
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > (c) Reuters 2007. All rights reserved.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tran Dinh Hoanh, Esq., LLB, JD
> > Washington DC
>
>
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