As soon as the word bad boss is mentioned most people start imagining pictures of a wicked person, a crook, a tyrant, a scheming backstabbing individual, a selfish ogre, etc And typical textbook definitions of a bad boss is one who screams, threatens, intimidates, grabs credit, fires people, throttles people’s necks and so on

If you have the habit of reading business magazines, management books or articles you will definitely encounter countless references about various super performers (or hyper efficient employees) that exist in various organizations, departments, teams, etc Of course, the definition of a super performer is a subjective term that can vary from manager to manager or from company to company, and can be quite varied based on their personal experiences

Nowadays if you read interviews of any top business people in any news media you will invariably see a question that asks which book they recently read or are currently reading And their obvious answers will be the names of some new fangled management book like why the moon is still round while the earth is going flat or the fifteenth leadership habit of a maverick, or some new cutting edge book about managing people, or even some fancy novel

One of the most frustrating (and sometimes terrifying) aspects for any modern employee or customer is the lack of simplicity in practically everything businesses do these days Organizations today are fiercely competing with one another to attain complexity, while at the same time loudly claiming to be making things simpler for everyone