How to be a great boss
“Most bosses want to be great,” says Leigh Buchanan in Inc.com. As we approach “National Boss Day” tomorrow, we might consider some “universal habits of great bosses,” as compiled by a “perpetual underling.” Great bosses “know when they’re not wanted,” and recognize that even the “most unassuming” of them makes workers “mildly uncomfortable.” They understand “the small picture” of the company, as seen by individual employees. Great bosses take time to figure out and remember what individual employees do, so they can “make unforced appreciative reference” to a worker’s accomplishments. “And employees, in return, remember them.”
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