What never ceases to amaze me in business these days, is how acceptable failure is. This is never more apparent than in the toxic manager. Everyone’s had a toxic manager in their past, and some of you will be unlucky enough to be working for one now. What’s probably running through your mind every day is: How on earth can my company employs someone like this? There are common traits in toxic managers that enable us to answer this question. The fully answer is too long for a simple post - but I will add it to the essay section soon:
1 - Toxic Managers can handle their managers very effectively
2 - They manage information within their team very successfully
3 - They are often exceptional sales people
4 - They take credit for their subordinates work
5 - They create a climate of fear that prevents their subordinates complaining
Some great strategies for coping with toxic managers can be found in “Coping with Toxic Managers, Subordinates … and Other Difficult People: Using Emotional Intelligence to Survive and Prosper (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books) (Paperback)
by Roy H. Lubit (Author)”
Source: Abdelaziz (Aziz) Musa