Self-awareness, self-reflection, clarity, consistency, hope and above all courage…the vital fundamentals required to avoid ‘being’ or ‘working for’ a bad boss.
Michelle Gibbings’s book ‘Bad Boss’ provides a candid, insightful and organised approach to identifying and managing the traits of the ‘great’ and the ‘not-so-great’ managers & leaders of the world. We optimistically like to reason that people don’t deliberately set out to be a bad boss, but occasionally they just don’t know any better, and are often shocked when their team thinks otherwise.
So, whether it’s that your boss’s tough or toxic work environment is making your life a living hell and pushing you to compromise your integrity and ethics, and you’re seeking to strategically influence their behaviour before you cash out. Or that perhaps, you’re striving to better understand your impact on others and elevate your ‘unconscious’ self to your ‘conscious’ self…this book is for you!
Michelle has succeeded in breaking down the jargon and provides real-life examples on how to get match-fit with your authenticity and priorities in your work life. She offers systematic time-out and self-reflection ‘sanity’ assessments that make it easy to identify the traps, so you can continue to reflect, reinvent, influence and self-guide yourself and/or boss.
Naomi Spinks is EA to the Chief Executive Australia & New Zealand AECOM
