Key Points
In the initial years of working life, discussing bosses is like a party game where each one tries to one-up on whose reporting manager is worse..
We have tried different ringtones, followed the heads-down approach, laughed at their jokes louder than they merited and cowered down in team meetings, hoping no part of the wrath would come onto us...
A diversity expert told me that employees consider harassment as a sexual one but a screaming boss is accepted and allowed as well as normalized..
So how should pressure be applied when time is running out, targets are unmet and the boss knows (and may be right) that not everyone in the team is chasing the goal?.
The rush to retain talent mostly translates into high performers getting promoted in swift succession, which means India Inc has many bosses who were never trained or fit to be one..
