When employees feel abused, mistreated or unappreciated by their boss, they either look for a job somewhere else or they retaliate by cutting back on their productivity. Researchers have estimated that the cost of employee turnover alone in America to be $1.7 trillion annually. Then, if you factor in the other things employees are motivated to do [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Bad bosses are those who treat their employees in ways that do not bring out their best efforts. Not bringing out the best efforts of your employees is like leaving money lay on the table at the end of the day. This is bad for America in that it makes our entire economy less productive than [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Last week, Harry Paul and I attended the Arizona State Conference for the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM). This gave us the opportunity to explain our Bad Boss Tagging Program first hand to hundreds of people. Most people gasped with excitement when we explained that if they went to www.bosstrenz.com and purchased a copy of our [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Until now, the only risk-free way to get back at a bad boss is to quit your job. This will inflict little or no pain on your bad boss and, in this terrible economy; it’s simply not a viable option because jobs are so scarce. That’s why Harry Paul and I developed our Anonymous Bad [...]
Read the rest of this entry »As many of you know, Harry Paul and I have written a new book called, Instant Turnaround! which provides detailed instructions on how any Bad Boss can become a Great Boss literally overnight. All you have to do is visit our BossTrenz website (click here to go), and “tag” your Bad Boss by purchasing a copy of [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The War on Bad Bosses is a grass roots campaign that will turn businesses, as we know them, upside down and make them the the kind of workplaces that everyone looks forward to going to every day. There are a number of things that you can do to spread the word.
Tell everyone you know about our War [...]
Read the rest of this entry »A Bad Boss is anyone who manages people in ways that do not bring out their best. If we are going to band together and rid the world of Bad Bosses, we must first adopt the following Zero Tolerance policy for Bad Bosses at all Levels:
Zero tolerance for bad bosses who make the lives of the people who work [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The biggest problem we face in the War on Bad Bosses is that most Bad Bosses think they’re doing a pretty good job. I asked one person, who I knew was a pretty Bad Boss–he was very prone to yelling at his employees–to read a copy of Instant Turnaround! This book will show any Bad Boss [...]
Read the rest of this entry »When an employee puts forth an idea, his or her ego is connected to it. Consequently, if you their boss, put down or attack their idea, you bruise their ego and they become defensive and unproductive. Now that employee is working against you instead of with you. So, the next time someone presents an idea to you–even if you don’t agree with [...]
Read the rest of this entry »One of the things that highly successful athletic coaches have in common is that they are able to keep people and problems separate. These coaches are very demanding when it comes to performance, but they treat their players with kindness, dignity and respect. As a result, their players love them to death because they know their coach is looking [...]
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