Doesn't sound like any boss I ever had. Mine have always been more like this: 1. My people have a flawed and incomplete understanding of how valuable I am to

Doesn't sound like any boss I ever had. Mine have always been more like this: 1. My people have a flawed and incomplete understanding of how valuable I am to them. 2. My success depends largely getting obvious and mundane things done, in spite of my people's shortcomings. 3. Having ambitious and well-defined goals is important, but it is useless to expect my people to think about them much. My job is to focus on the small wins that maximize my own bonus. 4. One of the most important, and most difficult, parts of my job is to strike the delicate balance between being a jerk and appearing not to be. 5. My job is to serve as a human irritant, to bombard my people with external intrusions, distractions, and idiocy of every stripe - and to avoid letting them think for themselves. 6. I strive to be confident enough to convince people that I am in charge, but to appear to be humble even though I am not. I aim to fight as if I am right, and appear to listen as if I am wrong, even though I never am. I protect my job by teaching my people nothing. 7. One of the best tests of my leadership is "how quickly do I reprimand someone when they make a mistake?" 8. Innovation is crucial in order for me to take credit. 9. So my job is to encourage my people to get off their lazy asses and do some work. 10. But it is also my job to fire them when they don't. 11. Good is stronger than bad. I am good. My people are bad. That's how I got to be the boss and they didn't. 12. How I do things is no one's business. I am the boss. Now stop reading this and get back to work.