CEOs acting as supreme leaders sadly isn’t a new thing, but in the past they didn’t admit it so baldly.
I’ve worked for an MDs who regularly ripped the phone out of the wall and threw it at his senior managers heads, a couple that managed out all the female managers, one that was open about giving pay rises/offices/promotions to his favourites, one horrendous bully and one crook.
One CEO was so bad that my whole team grabbed a visiting from our Head Office and complained. My boss was severely reprimanded for talking to the team (aka the rest of us in the room) and was lucky not to lose his job.
All these appalling leaders were ‘moved on’, some of them very suddenly but guess what? They all got new jobs as CEOs somewhere else almost immediately.
I’ve had plenty of good CEOs too, but that’s because they were decent people, not because anyone else held them to account.
CEOs acting as supreme leaders sadly isn’t a new thing, but in the past they didn’t admit it so baldly.
I’ve worked for an MDs who regularly ripped the phone out of the wall and threw it at his senior managers heads, a couple that managed out all the female managers, one that was open about giving pay rises/offices/promotions to his favourites, one horrendous bully and one crook.
One CEO was so bad that my whole team grabbed a visiting from our Head Office and complained. My boss was severely reprimanded for talking to the team (aka the rest of us in the room) and was lucky not to lose his job.
All these appalling leaders were ‘moved on’, some of them very suddenly but guess what? They all got new jobs as CEOs somewhere else almost immediately.
I’ve had plenty of good CEOs too, but that’s because they were decent people, not because anyone else held them to account.