[lvspiff]

One of the biggest problems in management is you don't rise to the top unless you do things like lying to your team. The perception of success helps the Peter Principal continue to thrive. Articles like this shouldn't need to be written, but they do because so many of us in leadership have been raised on to have a positive outlook on any situation no matter how screwed you are getting.

Oh we wont be getting bonuses this year? Well be glad you have a job!

Oh you wont be getting that raise you promised? Well we're adding a drink dispenser to the break room

As you get higher up it only gets worse - the yes men reporting to the executive are all reporting the good points and underselling the bad points. Have a project that's failing? Well better report that there are some aspects going well! Have a team that's not cutting it? Well report on the ones that are!

Until promotions are determined by actual objective measures and not by subjective anecdotal feelings this will continue to be the case.

[hliyan]

Contrary to what some young, smart and mostly well-meaning engineers will have you believe, not all managers/leaders are Dilbertesque caricatures. There many who fit that profile perfectly in certain types of organizations. But there are organizations where such types are less common too. If you're constantly surrounded by these types of individuals, it's probably a sign that you need to change companies.

[ipnon]

Even the most sadistic managers I've had, who not only held me back in my career but actively regressed it, took pictures of their cats and called their mom on the weekends. My point is that we should judge managers on how they affect our productivity.

[calfdanzen]

Question: '-Must-(crossed out) Should you devote yourself to pretensions using illusions, making sacrifices?' ? P-:

[ipnon]

Corporations are fundamentally non-democratic, oligarchic organizations. If you have a Marxist bent you might say a revolution is not possible. Consider business creation as an alternative to real wealth generation for individuals.