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So, your boss is stupider than you.
Sometimes we’re blessed with leaders, sometimes we’re not. Here’s your survival guide.
Courageous and compassionate leaders who can coach rather than berate, are rare. Those who listen rather than grandstand, and support within their expertise rather than deny their lack of knowledge and “delegate” (only, without the autonomy and support that is supposed to arrive with delegated tasks)…wow. They are in shockingly short supply.
If you’re truly being led with inspiration and autonomy — and not just managed — then count your blessings and stop complaining.
But by the same measure: if you’re not earning or learning, as the mighty Garry Tan puts it, then you need to quit.
What if you can’t, though?
Worse, what if your manager is more likely to s*** the bed and hide behind another member of staff before taking themselves up on their own responsibility, which ends up being yours? And what if that responsibility is for your manager to be more knowledgeable than you?
Ah yes. Welcome. This is the bad, mad and dangerous land where some of us live, and have lived. And on to the guide, then: so your boss is stupider than you — how to deal.
