How to Manage Your Bad Boss Is As Easy As ABC

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Unfortunately there are MANY people

out there who have been placed in

managerial positions, but who simply do

not have the ability or skills required to

set direction or lead teams, in a

responsible and respectable way.

Statistics estimate that up to 20 million

Americans face abuse at their work-

place every day*. So fear not, you are

definitely not the only one suffering in

your job due to the bad - and more

often than not, biased and irrational -

behavior of an ill-qualified manager.

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How to manage

your BAD BOSS isas EASYas

A-B-C

N E W S L E T T E R D A T EV O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1

Natasha Blynne

is the author of

My Boss Is A

Moron, a book

about the most

commonly-

exhibited bad

boss behaviors

and moreimportantly,

HOW TO

BEAT THEM in

an effective,

SMART and

100% non-

confrontational

way.

Keep your

sanity, outlive

the ordeal and

leave your bad

boss behind!

Now you CAN do

something to

manage your badboss, and it is

literally as EASYas

A-B-C.

NATASHA BLYNNE / MY BOSS IS A MORON /www.MyMoronBoss.com

If you have been thinking about how

unprofessional, unreasonable or incompetenyour manager isyou are not alone!

BY NATASHA BLYNNE

AUTHOR

MY BOSS IS A MORON

NOVEMBER 2011

*SOURCE:MYTOXICBOSS.C

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This is just a fraction of the most

commonly-cited bad boss behavio

that millions of people aroundthe worldencounter, every da

While it may be depressing to see how poorly managers can t

their people, the good news is: it is possible to effectively man

these conflicts with the rotten manager. Yes, you CAN do

something to turn the situation around for yourself.

I know from personal experience that when you are stuck wit

managerial incompetence on a daily basis and all your attemp

reason or communicate with the boss have failed - it can feel l

dead-end situation. At this point you may just want to give up

quit. But have you stopped to wonder if talking and

communicating - while commonly advocated as the most

sensible and mature approach - is really the best approach w

specifically dealing with a bad boss? After all, if you have alr

established that the boss is unreasonable, what are the

chances that you would be able to reason with him or her

While it may seem counter-

intuitive, Ive learnt the hard way

that managing an unprofessiona

manager requires an altogether

different approach from how you

would usually manage your workrelationship with an otherwise

normal human being.

If you recognize yourself in any of the scenarios highligh

in the left column (or similar bad boss crises), I advoca

simple A-B-C approach to deal with your bad boss:Bad bosses make your

work a living hell

My boss is constantly going behindmy back, and keeping things awayfrom me that are relevant to my job.

My manager must have Alzheimers he

always denies what he has

said previously, and even deniesbehind aware of situations that I have

previously brought to his attention.

Nobody in the team dares to questionanything that my manager says he is so

defensive and aggressive, he creates

fear in people to speak out.

My boss keeps stealing credit

for the work that I do!!

My boss doesnt trust me to do my

job and breathes down myneckall the time I cant getanything done with him micro-

managing me like this.

Im so sick of

my boss he is anirresponsible piece of sh*twho never takes anyaccountability for his

actions or decisions!!

The boss threw an

urgent report at me at2am in the morning thathad to be completed by9am thats the THIRDsuch urgent report I hadto do this month. Doeshe think I have no lifeoutside of work?

Do these real and

common complaints

against bad bosses

sound familiar to you?

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A-B-C approach to dealing with a bad bos

It is important to take action, and

not to passively sit back and

allow yourself to be the victim of

a bad boss. At the same time, the

key word here is to ACT in a

planned and professional manner.

To act means to carefully

consider your options before do-

ing something (some situations

may require you to think more

quickly on-your-feet than others;

even if so, you should inject at

least some seconds of thought in

advance of anything you do).

On the other hand, to react

means to respond emotionally

and in the heat of the moment,

without thinking things through.

If you react, the only thing

you are likely to achieve is

giving your bad boss the

satisfaction that he or she

has pushed you into a

corner, which is exactly what

the boss wants in most cases.

So remember NEVER REACT to

the boss. Always ACT to achieve

what you want.

do is NOT keep the boss

informed on the status of projects

you are managing. This will only

make the micromanaging bosseven more paranoid, and he or she

will clamp down on you even

more.

This may seem like intuitive and

logical advice, but you would be

surprised by how often people

forget to consider the type of

boss they are dealing with,

before trying to manage the

boss! Once you know what kind

Last but not least, remember to use

your common sense andintuition when it comes to handling

a bad boss. What do I mean by this?

For example, if you know that the

boss is insecure, the last thing you

want to do is openly question the

bosss decisions, no matter how

ridiculous the decision was. Such

provocation will only make the boss

even more insecure, and react

more defensively to you in future.

Similarly, if your boss is a micro-

manager, the last thing you should

of manager you are working

with, it will be easy to identify

his or her weaknesses, and

break them down one-by-oneto figure out how best to deal

with your bad manager.

tions - such as insecurity, paranoia,

arrogance or over-ambition

which make it difficult to predict

how the boss will respond in any

instance. As such, your actions

should always appear positive,

non-aggressive and seemingly

innocent. This will require you

to be smart and subtle about how

you approach the bad boss.

You will need to act in way thatdoes not give the boss any chance

to find fault with you and

normally this means to AVOID

engaging the boss in open

communication about how his

or her unreasonable managerial

actions are affecting your ability

to do your job.

Why? If the boss isinsecure, arrogant and defensive,

trying to make the boss under-

stand that he or she has poor

leadership qualities is about as

effective as chipping away at a

100-inch concrete wall with ablunt needle. Nothing is going to

get through, but the concrete

wall will only become more

resilient (and if it could talk, even

start blaming you for provoking it

unnecessarily).

HOW you choose to act is equally

vital, and the most important rule

is to act in a way that is subtle and

non-confrontational, so as to

minimize the possibility that you

may later on be blamed by the

boss for your actions.

This is a genuine concern to keep

in mind: the bad boss will normally

NOT be your regular person-next-

door, whom you can hope to

reason with, or talk sense to.

Quite the contrary, the bad boss is

usually driven by negative emo-

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Natasha Blynne

So what does

all this mean

for someone

who is trying

to manage a

bad boss?

Firstly it is pointless to assume thatthere is one size fits all solution forhandling a terrible manager who is dis-organized, unaccountable, unreasonableor self-interested. However there AREdefinitely practical ways to get aroundyour boss, and it will require some time,patience and observation on your partto decide how best to act.

Secondly and ultimately, only youhave the deepest under-standing about how exactlyyour boss is being an awful

manager. This meansthat only you will know

what actions to takethat will be mostsensible and giveyou the highestchance of success tobreak through.

Exercise sound judgment,and in no time you will beable to break free from thestressful and frustrating experienceof working with a bad boss! P H O T O C

S V I L E N

( E F F F E C T I V

About Natasha BlynneNatasha Blynne is the author ofMy

Boss Is A Moron, a book about howto manage bad boss behaviors, and titled

after a phrase she found herself repeat-

ing on a daily basis for 351 days when

she was forced to suffer an unfortunate

manager. She succeeded in leaving her

boss behind on the 352nd day: two

weeks before her personal deadline to

be rid of the boss within one year.

Natasha has over 10 years ofprofessional and senior management

experience, within the areas of

corporate communications and general

business operations. Most of her career

has developed with multinational

companies and institutions, and untilthis point she has lived and worked in

four countries across Europe and Asia.

Her background is in Business

Administration, specializing in Marketing

Management.

My Boss Is A Moron is Natasha's first

book, and is expected to be fully

released at the end of 2011. Visit her

book site at MyMoronBoss.com for a100% FREE first chapter from her new

book, packed with 20 pages of explicit

insights about bad boss behaviors.

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So what does

all this mean

for someone

who is trying

to manage a

bad boss?

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