> Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! Why isn't this taught in the MBA courses? Why isn't this common sense? Hey, you're welcome ;). People are weird. Confusing

> Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! Why isn't this taught in the MBA courses? Why isn't this common sense? Hey, you're welcome ;). People are weird. Confusing. Illogical. Communication is hard, management is hard, and emotional intelligence is perhaps not as high up on people's bucket lists of virtues to aspire to as one might hope. Personally, it wasn't until I got to see the difference between extremes of good vs bad management first hand, and in depth (for me, this was heavy involvement in several project's schedules), that I was able to really pick apart the differences between the two, and pick up on the relatively subtle differences in surface level behavior, and trace that all the way back to the more fundamentally different modes of operation. > They want to RULE and they hate the idea that their subordinates can dictate the pace and the format of the work, and they want "to get back at the nerds" <-- and this is actual overheard conversation between two managers in one of my former jobs. Ooof, my sympathies. I'd hope they were being sarcastic, but that's perhaps more the power of denial than anything else. I've seen a borderline case or two. I've also seen plenty of people between a rock and a hard place, and a few layoffs from the resulting collisions.