A short conversational transcript exploring mentorship and workplace dynamics: the speakers argue that asking a boss to mentor you can improve both parties and change their relationship, and that calling a boss 'clueless' often really means employees don't understand or align with their boss's priorities.
Is there any chance that you could spend a little time all by lunch once a week, and will you teach me how to read the financial or will you teach me about sales, or will you teach me about whatever leadership? What would happen in that relationship if, if you asked somebody to mentor you? Well, they would.
They would get better themselves. But it would also change the dynamic between you and I. Yeah.
I think that when we say people are clueless, that's too simple. We're not we're not really describing what the situation is. What we're what we're probably meaning to say, if we were telling the truth, if we were really trying to tell the truth, is we would say, I don't understand what my boss's priorities are. I'm aligning my priorities with what I expect their priorities to be, and they're not lining up.
