Bosses

It seems in this big wide world of life that we all have experienced our fair share of bosses. Some great and some down right miserable. For the lucky few who get a boss that is great often they don't realize it until much later. For instance, I have had experience with a boss who most people think is a lazy jerk that just barks orders and lives to terrorize them. Heck, I have even thought this myself many times when feeling like I was at my wits end dealing with him. However, through lots of hard concentrated effort I have finally "seen the light".

The problem with the perceptions people have is that they aren't in the trenches with the guy. They are making observations from the audience and not from the stage so to speak. Also, most people who are in the trenches don't take the time to really figure out why he is behaving that way. I have spent many hours analyzing and agonizing over it. And finally, I get it.

The point of what makes a boss great is you and you alone. You are solely there for him to throw curve balls at and you either catch them or you strike out. If you strike out you make him look bad and then that makes you look bad. He will make it your problem if he "loses" because you are supposed to be the insulation around him. It is a s*** rolls downhill theory. If he gets in trouble, you get in trouble, etc. Therefore by reversing that...if you do something good that makes him look good then eventually you will look good by association.

If all this time I had just realized this I would have saved myself issues with bosses I thought were terrible in the past. I realize now that their shortcomings in essence were my shortcomings. Just as when I was a manager and I had employees that had issues. I needed them to do things and relied on them to make me look good. If they didn't ultimately they were at fault, not me, and they got fired. I suppose that is why so many supposedly "bad" managers stay and so many employees get fired. That is the way it should be in corporate life.

Now some of you reading this probably think I am off my rocker but if you truly sit down and think about it you will see what I am saying has merit. Perhaps that is why my work life is going so great with my boss. I have realized that if I do things that help him out that really is just helping myself out. Let me know your thoughts!

Don't be a lemming!!