Lousy Leaders, Bad Bosses, Damning Dictators.

Poison and sub-par people in power. Why is this so often the case?

To be sure, there are many fantastic and phenomenal bosses out there.

However, it seems that people tend to have far more “bad boss” stories as opposed to good ones. That, when considering the whole of one’s personal employment history, poor management and lousy leaders tend to outweigh the incidence of good ones.

How can it be that so many who make it into such prominent, high power leadership roles are, much of the time, ill equipped or even downright awful at it?

There are several reasons for such, both that I have observed personally, as well as gleaned via reading on the topic.

1. They don’t have a handle on their own emotions (aka, they are emotionally immature).

A person cannot effectively lead others if not in control of, or thoughtfully aware, with regards to their own emotions. Most people need greater awareness of why they feel the ways they do. Were they to actually seek the knowledge, emotional tools, and learning toward such, this would result in improved interpersonal awareness, as well as greater insight with regard to the ways they then respond to and act on those emotions.