Tech Leadership Unplugged #5:Bosses matter. A lot

And a bad one can negatively influence your career and your perspective on work altogether.

Hey friends,

In this edition, I talk about:

• how bad bosses can influence your career

• my productivity system

• IBM is cutting jobs because of AI

• Big4 accounting firms admit COVID-era graduates struggle with communicating

• an audiobook recommendation

1/ Leadership: One bad boss can screw everything up.

I wrote a story last week on Twitter about my first job and how the interaction with that company’s CEO made me hate the idea of bosses.

In short, he was a former communist who behaved like a dictator, and I thought all bosses were the same. This is why I swore that I would never be a boss.

The years have passed, and I have met some great managers, which made me reconsider my position. So I started managing people in 2010, and I have been doing it ever since.

People usually underestimate the effect a bad boss can have on their career. I know a lot of people who ended up hating:

• jobs

• careers

• the idea of being employed

Only because they had a bad boss early on.

I know people say “boss” when they mean someon…