Just because you are the boss with the total power to hire and fire employees with or without cause does not mean that you are smart, wise, kind or fair. It means you are all-powerful in the work place, and little else.
50% of the time, you are smart and practical--the rest of the time you are a foolish dictator, hard on profits, hard on employees, hard on customers.
It may or may not be so that you have to screw up to move up, but once there, please remember the employees that you left behind, the ones that do the actual work. When you refuse to listen to them, to incorporate their original ideas, you disenfranchise them. Discouraged, disregarded employees shut down, and perform at the 40% level, but obedient zombies were what you required, right?
The undemocratic supervisor is bad for morale, for performance, for the bottom line.
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