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Presumably you haven't read this article, which seems to scratch a few different surfaces. If you can read that and still come away thinking "every single criti

• TeMPOraL 4y ago
  I haven't until now. Yup, this article is stupid too - most of the list there is noise, or reaching. There are a few good leads, but even taken together, they're hardly enough to justify the current level of vitriol.
  • blincoln 4y ago
    There's a class of bad leader/manager/executive/person-in-charge who has mastered the ability to generally not do or say anything on the record that would be a red flag, but leaves a wake of orange and yellow flags behind them. I didn't really understand that until I'd worked for one. People make mistakes and have personality differences, so one person's yellow flag is another's business-as-usual. IMO it's only fair to set aside some of those lesser warning signs, but when someone continuously accumulates a significant number of them, my experience is that it's equivalent to a giant red flag. That having been said, a new person-in-charge jumping in immediately and ordering a bunch of significant changes without taking the time to understand the environment is generally a giant red flag on its own. There are a few exceptions, of course, like if lives are in danger.