Posted on 10/19/2005 11:28:39 AM PDT by Samwise
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Everyone knows them, or knows someone who’s had to deal with them: gorilla bosses. The ones who make their way to the top by throwing one elbow too many, scaring colleagues with their violent rages and basking in an often-unearned aura of cockiness.
“A boss like that doesn’t want to accept feedback, doesn’t want to understand other points of view — it’s his or her way or the highway,” said Chicago-based science writer David L. Weiner (search), who wrote about the about the "gorilla boss" phenomenon in this year’s “Reality Check: What Your Mind Knows, But Isn't Telling You."
Weiner said gorilla bosses fill the space of the alpha-male primates who bully their way to the leadership of the tribe and rarely care whom they have to trample on their way to the top.
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But according to many experts, it’s the bosses who need psychiatric help, because Testa’s description of superiors like his as psychopathic is spot-on.
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“You see the same characteristics with apes and chimps in the brain,” Weiner said. “But where as humans we grew the frontal cortex (search) to curb our impulses to put someone down, these gorilla bosses have dysfunctional frontal cortexes.
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Their findings? Of the 11 personality disorders tested for, three were more likely to be found in the executives than in the institutionalized criminals, including histrionic and compulsive personality disorders and narcissism.
At the same time, the executives lacked many other personality disorders that may be easier to spot and might cut short their careers.
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You must work for the same company I used to work for. ;^)
That happened to me, too.
What style of martial arts do you teach?
LOL, the work place is war, just a different type of combat, sometimes you just have to fight those battles.
If one is in a dead end job, get those feet to walking. OTOH, if one can produce proven results and profits for the company, one can somewhat impose their will for changes.
Company I am now retired from, I quit twice and was fired three times. Brought or came back each time, those 20% annual raises over the years did a lot to ease things, and pains.
To me, a boss must first have self-respect. Through this, he'll earn the respect of those in his/her charge. So many 'Bully' bosses just have no respect for themselves. This is why they lie and cheat....it makes them feel like crap but, they hate themselves anyway so they feel they deserve the negative feelings. In short, insecure bosses fear their subordinates, then they those such things that create what they fear. It's a self fulfilling prophecy.
In my opinion, 70% of bosses at big corporations are probably in way over their head.....working up the political ladder rather then becoming experts in their field.
In his mind, he did............ but I left within minutes of the so called discussion
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