[anamax]

> Management always wants to think that they are right in every decision and the employees are the ones who are unproductive, but after decades of working for "the man" in about 10 different industries in different positions/careers, I have found the fault lies with management 80 to 90 percent of the time due to some leadership failure or combination of failures.

Getting crap reviews/evaluations because a project failed due to management screwups is the universe's way of saying "you should have left long before, but leaving now is your best available alternative."

Much of this discussion is how to protect people from the consequences of staying in a bad situation.

The correct response is to not to try to fix things, but to leave. Staying only perpetuates the problems.

Starve the beast.

[tonyedgecombe]

That's all well and good but if you accept the premise that 80 to 90 percent of management is failing then you need luck on your side to avoid ending up in the same situation again.