Are you a good boss or a bad boss?

If you’ve already downloaded my brochure, Coaching for Enhanced Business Performance, you’ll have noticed I included a quote from Daniel Goleman, expert on Emotional Intelligence, that goes as follows:

Goleman’s book, The New Leaders, was published in 2002 and it turns out that this statement is substantiated by the more recent findings of Robert Sutton, Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University.  In 2010 Sutton published a book entitled Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to be the Best and Learn From the Worst about which I recently saw an interesting introductory webinar.

Sutton says good bosses find ways to be in tune with their people and understand what it feels like for others to work with them. In his presentation, he summarises it thus:

You can watch Sutton talking about the key themes of his book in the You Tube video below.

Once you’ve watched the watched the video, you may want to ask yourself, how well aware are you of what it feels like to work for you?