Take-aways from Corrine’s story:
•If there’s a management vacuum, you can fill it yourself; after all, nature abhors a vacuum.
•If you have a boss who isn’t acting like a boss, it may be because he really doesn’t want to be a boss and would really rather just be a technical expert.
•If you’re a better manager or leader than your boss, then go do it; in the long run, you will be recognized as a manager and a leader, too.
•If your boss is making no decisions, that is a decision to continue the status quo. If that’s not what you want, seek to make the decision yourself so you are better able to get what you want.
© 2006 All rights reserved. Adapted from A Survival Guide for Working with Bad Bosses: Dealing with Bullies, Idiots, Back-Stabbers, and Other Managers from Hell, by Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D., published by AMACOM, a division of the American Management Association, http://www.amacombooks.org