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Bad Boss
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Bad Boss

by Michelle Gibbings
October 2020
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 2m
English
Wiley
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Index

  • Act
    • — for bad boss 159–169
    • — for employee 37–54
    • — explained xxxiii
    • — for manager 95–103
  • Agassi, Andre 177–178
  • Ali Baba 138
  • ambition 174
  • Ardern, Jacinda 135
  • Assess
    • — for boss 119–141
    • — for employee 3–18
    • — explained xxxii
    • — for manager 67–83
  • assumptions 38, 83
  • authenticity 60–61, 123, 126–128, 154
    • — feedback, getting 147, 149
    • — improving skills in 145–149
    • — leadership and 123, 126–128
    • — manifesto, living your 146, 148, 149
    • — moral licensing 126, 127
    • — reflecting on current status 147–148
    • — self-assessment, leader's 128
    • — shaping your future 147, 148
    • — values 126–127
  • authority, leader's 123, 133–135
    • — improving skills in 152–153
    • — self-assessment 134–135
  • awareness, leader's self- 123, 124–125
    • — improving skills in 145–146
    • — internal vs external 124
    • — self-assessment 125
  • behaviour(s) see also ethics
    • — bad boss 2, 3–5, 59
    • — checking your 79–80
    • — good and bad, balance of 127
    • — managing own 88–89
    • — managing subordinates' 89–92
    • — misunderstandings 24–25
    • — modelling 78
    • — nudging boss's 40–41
    • — toxic 3–4, 68, 136–137
  • blind eye, turning a 67–68
  • boss see also boss, bad; boss, four types of; leaders and leadership
    • — awareness of impact 13, 14–15
    • — employee views of 10–11
    • — four types of 12–17
    • — relationship with, improving 25–27
    • — selfish vs selfless 15
    • — style of, assessing 12–17
    • — understanding 4–5, 16–17, 44–45
  • boss, bad see also boss; boss, bad, changing own behaviour; boss, development of, if you are a bad; culture, workplace; employees dealing with ...
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