Mountaineer wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 7:47 am
vnatale wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 7:17 am
Xan wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 10:44 pm
vnatale wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 10:18 pm
Xan wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 8:50 pm
Well that's not any different from any other subservient position. At your office, your boss can't make you do anything. But he sure can fire you if you don't.
But there will be all kinds of repercussions from a boss doing something like that. It does not go unnoticed and, generally, has negative consequences for the boss.
I'm... confused. Isn't that how the boss gets you to do anything? Like, your job?
The kind of boss you describe is the boss ... the one who commands you to do certain things. Who does not respect your professional judgement or your motivations.
The good kind of boss is a true leader. Who persuades you to do things. Who gets you onboard of what are the correct things to do.
First kind of boss is a terrible kind of boss and loses a lot of good employees and does not get maximum performance from them.
The second kind retains and attracts good employees and gets maximum performance from them.
Trump is definitely the first type of boss.
I have no first hand information with which to assess your assertion about President Trump. I do agree with your two types of bosses (I have first hand experience).
KGB can back me up on this ... but I now from reading a military training book that the military believes the best leaders lead by persuasion, not by using positional authority.