Unforgettable Bosses, the Unicorns

Earlier we wrote on 7 disliked qualities that show your boss sucks, so called ‘appointed bosses’ who got there because they ‘pleased’ their superiors but had no merit and were actually parasites and ate bonus of their colleagues… On the contrary, sublime qualities of leadership that dwell beyond a reductionist world of just ‘facts’, These inspiring qualities reveal the wisdom of excellence, exaltation, and evolution. Unforgettable bosses are those who:

Unforgettable Bosses Lead by Permission

These bosses grow up to be great leaders who are consistent. Perhaps it’s more along the lines of ‘consent of the governed’, acknowledged as the leader by their teams instead of just because they’ve been made the boss. They are perceived to be thoughtful leaders who can easily accomplish business with the support of their team.

Unforgettable Bosses let their Employees make and Learn from their Mistakes

Great bosses create amazing company culture where team members are permitted to do stuff, learn from their mistakes and move on. A lot of self growth happens when you screw up. It’s very tempting to stop your staff from making a mistake that’s obvious to you, but when you do that you rob them of the lessons they’ll learn when they screw up colossally. You know, so long as the building doesn’t burn down…

Unforgettable Bosses Wear their Emotions on their Sleeves

At the end of the day is if you feel right with yourself. Challenge is that your disciples follow your steps even after you leave the organisation. Wear something on your sleeve means to make employee’s feelings or beliefs known to everyone. A good boss knows when to leave their emotions out of a situation and when their emotions are necessary and beneficial for their team. When it is time to express emotions, knows how to do it in a way that encourages his or her staff and makes them feel comfortable. A boss who lets his or her mood change frequently based on emotions, or who lets emotions control how they treat their teams is a poor boss, not a great one.

Unforgettable Bosses Promote Self Accountability at Workplace

What being a great boss, who becomes unforgettable, comes down to is having high moral standards for oneself and others. A boss is supposed to uphold the interest of his or her employees to improve organisational behaviour hence maximizing company productivity by upholding self accountability at workplace. The boss has added response-ability to lead by keeping the vision/mission/mantra of the organisation alive in self and in every member of the team, in every decision and in every task carried out, towards the humanistic goals.

Unforgettable Bosses are Passionate

If emotions are the result of compassion for the purpose / goal then it can be constructive and great if it goes viral throughout the team. But if the emotions are fueled by personal / egoistic goals then potentially not constructive and even harmful to the team and the greater purpose. They build corporate entrepreneurs and enable them with enough resources and tools.

Unforgettable Bosses Gain Feedback

Self realization and feedback is extremely important… to be a successful leader. They demonstrate office empathy to achieve this.

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Editorial Word: Where do you Find these Unicorn Leaders?

These mantras have been said time and again by the wise, but still we find handful of people only practicing it genuinely, we strongly feel all these will remain paper book until some one genuinely gets the idea and truly imbibes this as an inherent personality, rather than a show case behavior. Experience shows though -most of the time - bosses emerge from opportunistic behavior and that is sad. People create an environment that suppresses the good behavior. We see the same dysfunction in politics and among senior corporate leadership. There seems to be a reality distortion field that surrounds more and more senior leaders. Why not look beyond the “in your face” corporate washed examples? Has any manager/department head ever faced challenges that were beyond their ability to change? We think in many situations this is the case. We are not pretending to say bad managers do not exist, but rather we say what about the managers who were actually railroaded? They exist also. To our knowledge, no training exists on how to detect undermining, and what to do if you do???

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