Kathy CaprinoGlobal Career & Leadership Breakthrough Coach | Writer | Speaker| Trainer supporting professional growth and success

How To Handle Jerks At Work | #shorts #jerk #careerguidance #careeradvice #careergrowth

30 Nov 2022 · 1 min

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Kathy Caprino explains the curse of middle managers: squeezed from above, they micromanage subordinates, ignore people two levels down, and copy bad behavior from their own bosses, spreading dysfunction through the company.

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So most managers actually only care one level down. These neglectful bosses, they're often being micromanaged. They're often kind of spread between trying to please leaders and trying to please anyone beneath them. It's kind of like this curse of the middle manager. Those upper level managers, if they're bad and they're engaging in the same stuff, that middle manager is going to also do it. It's a real contagion of these effects. So I'd say, you know, most of the time, they can't really ride this out unless they have a boss who's kind of doing the same thing. And all that boss cares about is whether that person meets the benchmarks they set for them. They don't really care how they get there, and they're never checking on anyone two levels beneath them.

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