I've had terrible, great, and mediocre bosses too. The phenomenon that gets me most is why so many of the terrible ones clearly have destructive personality dis

I've had terrible, great, and mediocre bosses too. The phenomenon that gets me most is why so many of the terrible ones clearly have destructive personality disorders. If you have your own page in the DSM, the damage you can do to the organization as an individual contributor is limited, but you can do 100x more damage as a manager. And many of these people are very good at convincing people above them in the organization that they are wonderful. I wish it were standard procedure in organizations to give full psychiatric evaluations to all manager candidates prior to promotion so that at least the psychopaths, narcissists, and sexual predators could be weeded out ahead of time.