Friday, August 03, 2007

Bad bosses get ahead

"Be a bad boss and get ahead" - this article quotes an Australian university study and says, "the local workplace tyrant was either never censured or was promoted for domineering ways."

The study's authors, Anthony Don Erickson, Ben Shaw and Zha Agabe of Bond University in Australia, said, "The leaders above them who did nothing, who rewarded and promoted bad leaders ... represent an additional problem."

As always, flip the word 'leader' to 'dictator', and everything will make sense: "The dictators above them who did nothing, who rewarded and promoted bad dictators ... "

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