Stop hiring, and promoting, assholes and incompetent people into management
Managers are why people leave jobs, usually. (Money is too.) So maybe let's, uh, try to improve who we let manage others?
I wrote my first epoch on asshole bosses back in early December 2015, so about four years ago almost. Here it is. Now, yesterday on Harvard Business Review, we have this headline -- and I wasn't clear that we needed this info, or lacked it, in 2019: "To Prevent Burnout, Hire Better Bosses." Indeed. That would make some logical sense. Part of the problem…
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