Most people at some point in their career will experience a “bad boss”.
I started working nearly full-time at the age of 12. I would ride my bike to a grocery store every afternoon after school. It was a necessity in our home if I wanted the cool clothes and eventually the cool car. (I wish I still had that first car, by the way.)
Along the way, I’ve had so many different bosses. Some good. And some not so good.
In fact, for years, I didn’t even know the term leader. I only knew the term boss.
I cringe at the term now.
Part of that reason is the number of bad bosses I have either personally had or the ones I have encountered through coaching people. The term indicates everything to me that leadership is not supposed to be. I don’t want to be a boss.
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