Smart guy but a total A-hole How do people like this get promoted?

As a management team distinguishing between being strong, firm managers and a marginal authoritarian tyrant is a necessary requirement. Often we misattribute yelling and being a go-getter as desirable behaviors for management. This leads to bullying behavior and negative impact on the organizations productivity and peoples’ desire to do great work and stay with the company.

Work is Selling We are all in sales now

Work is selling and we all need to focus on persuading others to assist us in completing our work. Managers, especially, need to work to uderstand other perspectives. Plus an understanding that looking for certain personality traits in employees is a waste of time.